A federal judge sentenced Marcus Gullatte Sr. to 22 years in a Dayton fentanyl and methamphetamine case.

Twenty-two years is the prison term imposed after a guilty plea. It is the judgment on the conspiracy count. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Gullatte bought bulk fentanyl and methamphetamine in the Dayton area in the summer of 2024 and resold them while he was already on supervised release from earlier federal drug cases. Those earlier sentences are not this case.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced that Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Rose on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, sentenced Marcus Gullatte Sr., 38, of Dayton, to 264 months in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine. WKEF reported the term as 22 years, which is 264 months. WHIO reported the 22-year term the same day. The sentence follows Gullatte's June guilty plea. It is what the court imposed on the count he admitted.

Court documents described in the announcement say that throughout the summer of 2024 Gullatte acquired bulk amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamine from a Dayton-area source and resold the drugs for cash. The office said he did that while on federal supervised release. It described him as a career offender with an escalating pattern of drug trafficking and multiple drug convictions. Two prior federal drug-trafficking sentences, of 36 months and 60 months, are part of that history. They are not the sentence imposed Thursday.

A federal grand jury indicted Gullatte in November 2024, and he pleaded guilty in June, the announcement said. U.S. Attorney Dominick S. Gerace II and Jason Cromartie, special agent in charge of the FBI's Cincinnati Division, announced the sentence. The release named Deputy Criminal Chief Tabacchi as the prosecutor. WKEF reported the sentencing hearing was Thursday. The 264-month term is the punishment on the conspiracy count. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.