Two years ago actor Michael K. Williams died at home from a fatal drug overdose of heroin laced with fentanyl [click here if you missed that].
Michael's dealer just plead guilty to drug charges and is facing up to 40 years in prison...
From TMZ
39-year-old Irvin Cartagena pleaded guilty Wednesday in NYC to one count of conspiring to distribute drugs in connection to the late actor's fatal overdose from 2021. He now faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison ... and could even see as many as 40.
Cartagena was facing additional charges and potentially life in prison ... but ultimately pled guilty to just one.
Federal prosecutors slammed Cartagena after securing the guilty plea -- as well as others who were arrested -- by saying the sale of fentanyl-laced heroin brazenly happened in broad daylight ... and that Cartagena and co. were preying on victims like Williams in Brooklyn.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams also claimed that the dealers continued to peddle drugs on the streets without a second thought ... even after Williams died. A second defendant who was also arrested and charged last year reportedly pled guilty too.
12 comments:
To the street dealers, he was just another junkie and source of income.
don't punish the dealer there doing there job Don't do drugs
The dealer… What about who the dealer got it from. This legal system always stops there prosecution with the dealer as if he magically made the junk.
If the transaction wasn't captured on video they'd probably still be street dealing.
Supply and demand. If there was no demand, no one would have a supply. Drug dealers exist because some people prefer to self medicate than to go to therapy or face their reality. Unfortunately, some people will die because of this.
Prosecuting drug dealers was just another way of putting black men in jail. The same number of white men are not in jail for these same crimes. Black men are the face of drug dealers. Except, I don’t see no black man selling drugs in the Asian, Arab, Whitey and African communities.
@ 11:50 That's why brothas need to stop falling into the trap literally and figuratively.
211:50 AM. A gang gang of people die every year from drugs prescribed by their Dr. Just saying. ✌🏾
R.I.P. Michael Williams. Your death has been avenged. Your drug dealer has pled guilty. Rest easy.
Drug addiction is a chemical unbalance that is hard to shake off. Even after years of being off drugs the thought of using never goes away. Thats why it's called a disease. It's mental and physical.
@5:32PM Exactly. It is something he struggled with for most of his life. He was very open about it. I understand that drugs are illegal. However, alcohol was once illegal as well. If someone unknowingly laced your vodka with something else that could injure or kill you the lawsuits would write themselves and the calls for justice would be just as loud. He did not deserve this. God rest his soul.
Cancer is a disease if you CHOOSE to self medicate look at what happens look at a crack head who is interested in looking like that makes no sense!!!
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