A man originally from Dubuque who sold drugs that resulted the overdose deaths of a Marion couple, was sentenced to 37 years in federal prison. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa, 34-yer-old Cody Dittmar, was given the sentence this week in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids after a jury in June found him guilty of distributing and conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl, resulting in two deaths. U.S. District Court Judge C.J. Williams ordered Dittmar to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term. The release states that according to court records, Dittmar was sentenced to 64 months in federal prison following a 2017 conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was released to federal supervised release in June 2023. Dittmar immediately began selling heroin and fentanyl with his girlfriend, then wife, Alysha Dittmar. The Dittmars sold a mixture of heroin, fentanyl, and xylazine to a customer in Marion on July 1, 2023. The customer and his wife both used the drugs shortly thereafter and died of overdoses. Alysha Dittmar previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin and fentanyl resulting in the two deaths. In addition to the 420-month prison sentence, Cody Dittmar also was sentenced to two years’ consecutive imprisonment as a result of the revocation of his supervised release in the 2017 case.
