A woman admitted to distributing fentanyl inside Santa Rita, which prosecutors determined led to the death of an incarcerated woman.
OAKLAND — In a plea deal with federal prosecutors, a Bay Area woman admitted to selling fentanyl inside Santa Rita Jail, which led to the overdose death of an incarcerated woman, court records show.
Kameron Reid, 37, admitted to possessing fentanyl for distribution and causing the death of Lee Esther Anderson, a 41-year-old woman who died after taking a dose of fentanyl that Reid provided her, according to court records. Reid has been out of custody since January, a month after she was charged in federal court, but agreed to surrender Friday.
She is set to be sentenced in October by U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, a federal judge with a reputation for showing compassion to defendants who come before him. The criminal complaint against Reid, written by an FBI agent, states that another incarcerated woman told authorities that Reid gave her and Anderson fentanyl that didn’t have any effect, so she promised to give them another dose she referred to as the “big dog.” Reid allegedly smuggled the drugs around the jail by hiding them in a body cavity.
Reid advertised pink, white, and green-labeled fentanyl to signify doses with different concentrations, prosecutors said. Fentanyl is a very potent synthetic opioid that is roughly 50-100 times stronger than morphine and can kill people who ingest very small amounts.
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