US Fentanyl Dealer Charged with Overdose Murder
- March 16, 2023
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A 23 year old woman from Florida. was charged with murder for selling fentanyl, one of the deadliest synthetic opioids, prompting overdose another woman found dead in her
A 23 year old woman from Florida. was charged with murder for selling fentanyl, one of the deadliest synthetic opioids, prompting overdose another woman found dead in her home in 2022, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Alexis Joy Sather, 23, of Marathon Key, was arrested Wednesday on charges of murder for selling fentanyl to Grassy Key resident Amanda Roberts, 53, who died of an overdose, authorities in Monroe, in the state’s southwest, said Thursday in a statement.
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Roberts was found dead at her residence on September 2, 2022. At the scene, they founddrug tests“Therefore, the county coroner’s office determined that the cause of death was an overdose of fentanyl and diazepam,” authorities said.
A subsequent investigation, the statement said, found that Sater sold fentanyl to Roberts, which led to her death.
Sater was already in jail on Wednesday on other drug-related charges when she was charged with an additional charge in Roberts’ death, the sheriff’s office, which handles the South Florida Keys resorts, said.
This is the third time in about 12 months that this law enforcement agency has arrested a drug dealer in connection with his death.”as a result of his drug dealing“, he revealed.
“I hope this message is very clear; stop selling this poison in our community, it destroys lives and kills people,” Sheriff Rick Ramsey said.
“If you sell these drugs and somebody dies, we accuse him of murderhe warned.
From May 2020 to April 2021, 100,306 people overdosed in the United States and 64% involved synthetic opioids, especially fentanyl, which originates in China and enters the US from Mexico, according to the Centers for Diseases. Control and Prevention (CDC).
In Florida, the second U.S. state with the highest number of overdose deaths, over the 12 months (October 2020 – September 2021), overdoses claimed the lives of 7,574 people (a year earlier – 7,422), surpassing this figure only in California, where there was 10,098 deaths have been recorded. for this reason for the same period (8,480).
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Florida Democratic Senator Tina Polsky has introduced a bill that, if passed by the current Legislature, would decriminalize a tool to help prevent fentanyl overdose.
Draft Senate Bill No. 164, which, according to local media such as Tampa Bay 10 advancement in the State Senate, would remove fentanyl test strip kits from the state’s definition of “drug supplies.”
This means that anyone who owns or uses it in Florida cannot be arrested or prosecuted for it.
“ fentanyl test strips these are simple, low-cost paper strips that save lives by detecting the presence of deadly fentanyl in any shipment of drugs in the form of tablets, powders or injections,” said Polsky, who represents the city of Boca Raton in southeast Florida.
Introducing the bill this month, Polsky noted that “in many cases, teenagers die from fake prescription pills containing fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.”
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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