A former Montgomery County first-grade teacher has been sentenced to serve 151 months in federal prison for the sale of fentanyl resulting in the overdose of the victim, with prosecutors adding that the woman left her classroom in the middle of the day to sell drugs.
The federal court has sentenced a 36-year-old woman from Burtonsville named Sarah Katherine Magid to serve 151 months for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. The sentence included 15 years in prison, an additional fine of $25,090, a payment toward covering the cost of the victim’s burial, and three years of supervised release after serving the prison sentence.
According to court documents, Magid was distributing fentanyl in March of 2024, leading to the death of the victim two days later. The victim was found dead on March 25, 2024, at a recovery facility for drug and alcohol abuse victims. This information comes from the Drug Enforcement Administration special agent’s affidavit.
According to the court documents, investigators were able to discover text messages between Magid and the victim about the fentanyl distribution. The forensic analysis of the victim’s phone revealed a text message exchange followed by the meeting, where the prosecutors stated that the texts were describing the transaction of pills looking like oxycodone hydrochloride but filled with fentanyl. The cause of death was determined to be fentanyl toxicity by the District of Columbia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
It is also mentioned in the affidavit that Magid’s phone shows a text conversation where she states that the victim did not pick up any drugs from her and also added that drug dealers can’t be held responsible for the death of the person they sell drugs to.
In July 2024, it was reported to investigators that there is a Montgomery County first-grade teacher who leaves her classroom to sell drugs to people outside of the building. According to prosecutors, authorities later discovered text messages on Magid’s phone proving that the woman deals drugs during work hours. Also, the affidavit says that she was dealing drugs on school property and boasted about her counterfeiting pills, according to a 15-page redacted filing.
At the time of her 2024 arrest, Magid was working at the Dr. Charles R. Drew Elementary School in Silver Spring. The police arrested her in August 2024 when the search and seizure warrant was executed at her home in Burtonsville. Previously, the woman had been charged under Maryland’s controlled dangerous substance laws.
The U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes issued the sentence alongside the DEA Washington Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher C. Goumenis and Montgomery County Police Chief Marc R. Yamada.
Magid’s lawyer, Nicholas Madiou, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
