BATON ROUGE MAN SENTENCED TO 60 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR DISTRIBUTING METHAMPHETAMINE AND FENTANYL

Damiene M. Varice, age 47, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison following his conviction for distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Kurt L. Wall. U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles further sentenced Varice to serve four years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment.

According to admissions made as part of his guilty plea, on July 9, 2025, at a retail business located on Greenwell Springs Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Varice sold several baggies of white powdery substances to a confidential informant working for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Field testing returned positive results for methamphetamine and fentanyl. Subsequent laboratory analysis confirmed that the methamphetamine mixture had a net weight of 28.0 grams and 98% purity and that the fentanyl mixture had a net weight of 3.48 grams.

U.S. Attorney Kurt L. Wall praised the work of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lyman E. Thornton III led the prosecution.