Federal Grand Jury Indicts Louisville Man in Connection with Overdose Death

Louisville, KY – A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned a superseding indictment today charging a Louisville man with distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.  

U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner of the Western District of Kentucky, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, and Special Agent in Charge Jim Scott of the DEA Louisville Field Division made the announcement.

According to the indictment, Tyler Cull, 25, was charged with distributing a mixture and substance containing fentanyl in Jefferson County and Hardin County on December 14, 2024, which resulted in the death of a victim. Cull was previously indicted on April 2, 2025, for possessing with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing fentanyl. This occurred on March 26, 2025, in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

On June 12, 2025, Cull was ordered detained by a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. He remains in federal custody pending trial. If convicted of distribution resulting in death, he faces a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors. 

“Today marks the first step in the formal process of holding Tyler Cull accountable for pushing poison into our Commonwealth, causing the death of a remarkable person,” said U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner. “Our Office will aggressively pursue this prosecution to ensure justice for the victim’s family and to put all others in the Commonwealth on notice that you will face the weight of federal prosecution if your cavalier drug distribution kills one of our brothers or sisters.”

“This federal indictment is what zealous collaboration looks like,” said Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman. “Those Kentuckians who we have a duty to protect, and one particular grieving family in Hardin County, deserve no less.”

There is no parole in the federal system.

This case is being investigated by the DEA, Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, Lyndon Police Department, and Elizabethtown Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joshua R. Porter and Frank Dahl, III are prosecuting the case with assistance from paralegal Aaron Cooper.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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