Cedar City Residents Sentenced to Prison After Providing Lethal Dose of Fentanyl

ST. GEORGE, Utah – Two Southern Utah residents were sentenced to a combined 27 years’ imprisonment for their role in the overdose death of a Utah woman who died after taking a lethal amount of fentanyl they provided.

John Parry, 40, of Cedar City, Utah, was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment and Kimberly Dawn Hare, 34, of Cedar City was sentenced to 144 months’ imprisonment.  

The sentences, imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Ann Marie McIff Allen, come after Parry and Hare pleaded guilty in November 2024 to distribution of fentanyl. At the time of sentencing, the court also ordered Parry and Hare to pay a joint restitution in the amount of $4,616.08 to the victim’s estate as reimbursement for costs associated with the victim’s funeral and related services. Following their terms of imprisonment, Parry and Hare will each have three years of supervised release.  

According to court documents and statements made at the defendants’ change of plea and sentencing hearings, Parry and Hare admitted that in April 2024, they provided fentanyl to the victim, which resulted in her death. On April 19, 2024, Parry drove from Cedar City to Salt Lake City to pick up fentanyl. He used Hare’s social media account to communicate with the victim about selling her fentanyl pills. On April 20, Parry returned to Cedar City with fentanyl pills. In Facebook messages, Parry agreed to sell the victim three pills. He then gave the pills to Hare, who delivered the pills to the victim at a Cedar City hotel. Within an hour, a third party found the victim dead from an overdose. Agents recovered two pills from the scene, which tested positive for fentanyl. A postmortem toxicology report indicated the victim had a lethal amount of fentanyl in her blood. The victim also had relatively lower amounts of amphetamine and methamphetamine in her blood. 

“Today, our hearts are with the loved ones of the victim,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Felice John Viti of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah. “No amount of imprisonment will justify the loss of life in this tragedy, but it is our hope that the sentence imposed will help them find closure and deter others from distributing this deadly drug.”

The case was investigated jointly by the Cedar City Police Department and the Iron/Garfield/Beaver Counties Narcotics Task Force.

Assistant United States Attorneys Brady Wilson and Stephen P. Dent of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah prosecuted the case.