Michael K. Williams’ alleged dealer faces life in prison for a charge known as “death-resulting,” which prosecutors are using to try to address the fentanyl crisis.
to establish such a provision in New York was first introduced in 2015, but it’s languishing in the state legislature.
“Williams’ death is being commemorated by ratcheting up and feeding the war on drugs and deploying these failed approaches,” said Leo Beletsky, a law and health sciences professor who studies the issue through the. “And it's a travesty. It's a desecration of his life and career.” Capelouto, of Temecula, Ca., lost his 20-year-old daughter two years ago after she took a pill that she thought was oxycodone but was actually fentanyl. His daughter’s drug dealer was finally arrested last December and he is now being charged with distributing a drug that resulted in death. Capelouto says he doesn’t think of his daughter’s death, or Williams’, as overdoses. “They were poisoned,” he said. “And hence being a poisoning, that’s a homicide.
Last September, Williams, who had been open about his struggles with drug addiction, purchased baggies of drugs marked with the label “AAA Insurance” in a hand-to-hand transaction and exchanged phone numbers with Cartagena, according to surveillance video reviewed by investigators. An NYPD detective on the case said that during the interaction Cartagena put his hand on Williams’s shoulder, “which I believe indicated that the individual recognized Williams,” according to the complaint.
Beletsky, of the Health In Justice Action Lab, said the cost of investigations into such death-resulting cases is exorbitant. Indeed NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said that detectives in Brooklyn “lived this case, never relenting in their investigation until they could bring a measure of justice to Michael K. Williams and his family.” She said NYPD investigators traveled to Puerto Rico for the case.
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