The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office has charged a man in connection with a fatal overdose that happened a year and a half ago.
According to Sheriff Danny Rogers, detectives with the Major Crimes Investigative Unit arrested 31-year-old Dylan Wayne Brown on Monday, Nov. 24, following what the department described as an extensive investigation into the April 2024 death of 41-year-old Roger Lee Brown Jr.
On April 29 of last year, deputies responded to 6012 Laurel Knoll Drive in Pleasant Garden for a reported overdose. While deputies were on the way, Guilford County Emergency Services pronounced Roger Lee Brown Jr. deceased at the scene.
Investigators said the case moved forward with assistance from the NC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Guilford County District Attorney’s Office.
Detectives ultimately charged Dylan Wayne Brown (pictured above) with Felony Death by Distribution.
Brown is currently being held in the Guilford County Detention Center in Greensboro under a $100,000 secured bond. His first court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, at 2 p.m.
The Sheriff’s Department said the investigation remains ongoing and added that there’s no additional information available at this time.
Anyone with information related to the case is being urged to contact Detective J. Allen at 336-641-2799 or Guilford County Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000.
Drug dealers commit murder, and they should be dealt with accordingly; not slapped on the wrist.
Right, murder 1.
Unfortunately, “death by distribution” results in just that – a slap on the wrist. I live next to a fraternity house in Wilmington that was the epicenter of the fentanyl trade here. Never fashioned myself as a narc, but when they started having cars park in my driveway I called the law, and badgered them to no end. They claimed that they wanted to “build the case.” This was before four people died, so I guess they built their case. The two guys they popped are serving two year sentences, just two years.
Drug dealers are the cause of death of thousands and thousands of Americans on an annual basis. But also, the cause of a disrupted society, fractured families, cost of extra policing to taxpayers, the sky-high cost of medical care to taxpayers, and the dumbing down of users. Drug dealing is not a victimless crime. All of society pays one way or another.
junk food/cigarettes – ‘death’ by distribution when voluntarily consumed ? ‘evangelizing’ in the wrong place ? (think islam)
Junk food and cigarettes are legal. Have you ever heard of a junk food addict breaking into a home for money to buy junk food? The first time illegal drugs are used, they are used willfully. After that, not so much.
junk food/cigar/alcohol addicts are overwhelming health care & why the willful healthy get ‘robbed’ by insurance companies ‘spreading out the cost’. i am glad pain killers exist even though some people are addicts. prohibition failed get over it average primates like to catch a buzz ? motor vehicles ’cause’ much more death n destruction. smart people (scientists not us) claim we are poisoning EVERYBODY burning fossil fuels. legal poison ‘pushers’ coexisting with illegal pushers are both parasites.
I understand your view. As far as health insurance companies, they have been trying to rein in medical costs since the 1970s and 1980s. Insurance premiums are a reflection of what is happening in hospitals (the main cause of exorbitant medical expenses,) doctors who prescribe unnecessary tests and procedures because patients demand it, billing fraud, and lawyers who solicit for “injured” clients, people who use emergency rooms when an urgent care would be a better choice, and crime. Insurance companies are not responsible for any of this. It is easier to be upset at one perceived cause. But the problems listed are not the fault of insurance companies, they are left to manage the consequences of greed, politics, and the public that wants everything without paying for it. I am sure we all would be taken aback at the money insurance companies spend fighting fraud to help keep premiums lower.
For prohibition, the government took away something that had been available and enjoyed since the beginning of the republic. Of course, this was not appreciated witnessed by bootleggers and speakeasies. It was bound for failure.
. . . even tho the reasons for starting prohibition make perfect sense, even commendable ! ‘the education of little tree’ describes indian landowners who ‘get by’ making n selling superior moonshine – easy to be sympathetic BUT what if it was ‘meth’ instead of alcohol ? cultural mores (d)evolve . subject change: can two 14yo’s be convicted of pedophilia if they have consensual sex with each other ? ha ha can o worms