North Fort Myers woman sentenced to 30 years for selling fentanyl that led to overdose

A woman from North Fort Myers was sentenced to 30 years in prison for selling fentanyl that led to an overdose death in 2019.

Jessica Niccole Wright, 39, was adjudicated guilty and sentenced Tuesday morning in two drug cases. In the first, she was sentenced to 30 years in prison for manslaughter, sale or delivery of fentanyl, sale or delivery of a controlled substance, and possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell or deliver.

Wright was indicted in the first case by the Lee County Grand Jury in October 2020.

On August 22, 2019, Wright delivered a small amount of fentanyl to a friend who used the drugs and then died. That same day, unaware that her friend had overdosed, Wright sold fentanyl to an undercover Lee County Sheriff’s Office detective. She was arrested after the sale.

Wright was also sentenced to five years in prison for one count of sale of methamphetamine. Wright is one of the defendants arrested in the first operation of the Narcotics Enforcement Task Force’s “Operation Block Party” in 2019 and 2020. The five-year sentence will run concurrent to her first case.