Kevin Deutsch

Kevin Deutsch is an American criminal justice journalist and author. He is the author of Pill City, an account of how two teens used opioids looted during the 2015 Baltimore riots to sell drugs using an Uber-like app and found a nationwide criminal syndicate. The sourcing and veracity of some of his news articles and his book Pill City became the subject of a high-profile dispute in 2017, involving allegations that Deutsch repeatedly fabricated sources, quotes, and events. Deutsch denied the claims and defended his work as accurate, as did his publisher, St. Martin's Press.