Former Youngstown Man Sentenced For Selling Fentanyl Resulting In Western Pennsylvania Death

Monday, November 17, 2025, 8:00 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

PITTSBURGH, PA.- On Thursday, a 28-year-old former Youngstown, Ohio, man and Western Pennsylvania drug kingpin learned he would be nearly 70 years old when he gets out of federal prison, after being sentenced to four decades for selling fentanyl, resulting in the death of a Mercer County, Pennsylvania resident in January of 2022.

     According to Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti, on Thursday, November 13, 2025, Eliot Gentry, 28, formerly of Youngstown, Ohio, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Arthur J. Schwab to 480 months in federal prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, after previously pleading guilty to multiple federal drug trafficking offenses.

Gentry Previously Pleads Guilty To Multiple Counts

     Gentry previously appeared in Federal Court in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and pleaded guilty to Distributing Fentanyl Resulting in Death; and Conspiring to Distribute 400 Grams or More of Fentanyl and 100 Grams or More of Fluorofentanyl; and Conspiring to Distribute Five Kilograms or More of Cocaine.

According To Court Documents

     According to court documents, Gentry, who has prior convictions and state prison sentences for violent drug trafficking crimes, orchestrated and operated a multi-state drug trafficking network throughout 2021 and 2022 involving large quantities of fentanyl, fluorofentanyl, and cocaine in Mercer and Lawrence counties, within the Western District of Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio. This included the trafficking of fentanyl that led directly to the death of an individual in Western Pennsylvania in January 2022.

     As part of the large-scale drug trafficking network, Gentry employed dealers, including multiple juveniles, to work at traphouses he set up in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. The traphouses, along with Gentry’s residence, were stocked not only with narcotics but also with firearms to be utilized to intimidate rival drug dealers and to enforce payments as needed.

     Gentry continued to operate the drug trafficking network while briefly incarcerated in 2022, and also continued to engage in violent drug trafficking following his federal indictment and detainment pending trial and sentencing. Further, Gentry was repeatedly sanctioned for possessing contraband, including controlled substances and a weapon, while detained in local detention facilities.