KALAMAZOO, MI (WTVB) – A North Adams man was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in a federal prison for distributing a fatal dose of the deadly synthetic opioid carfentanil to Tyler Herendeen of Hillsdale County in January of 2017.
43-year-old Damiane Buehrer pled guilty in July to giving the drug to Herendeen. He also admitted that he burned Herendeen’s body after he died in an effort to destroy evidence.
Herendeen’s body was found in the trunk of a car that had been set on fire on a remote section of Voorheis Road.
The body was subsequently identified through dental records. Herendeen was a life-long resident of Hillsdale County and an honorably-discharged member of the Michigan Army National Guard who had served in the Afghanistan war.
Buehrer was arrested and indicted in April of 2019 following an investigation by the Michigan State Police and the F.B.I..
Buehrer was also prosecuted for engaging in interstate dog fighting for profit. He was sentenced in October 2018 to serve a 46-month sentence in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for the dog-fighting offense, while the investigation into Herendeen’s death continued.
Buehrer will be required to complete the prison term for the dog-fighting case before he begins serving his 30-year-sentence.
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