Case DIH-0033
Cruz Noel Quintero
A hospital emergency medical technician who sold powder he said was cocaine to a coworker in the hospital parking lot; it was fentanyl, and her partner, a former nurse at the same hospital, died after they took it.
- Court
- Federal, Central District of California
- State
- California
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Fentanyl
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Coworker
- Conviction
- Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death; machine guns; unregistered firearms (2); drug premises; firearm in furtherance
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- 352 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release survey 2020–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what California’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see California in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govFormer long beach first responder sentenced more 29 years prison drug and gun crimes
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