Case DIH-0220
Jonathan Betancur
Sold drugs in Queens with co-defendant Vladimir Esguerra; together they sold heroin cut with fentanyl to a man who died in a pizzeria.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of New York
- State
- New York
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Heroin; fentanyl
- Conduct
- Unknown
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to distribute controlled substances; distribution heroin/fentanyl causing death
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 110 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release survey 2020–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what New York’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see New York in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govTwo defendants sentenced distributing heroin and fentanyl caused fatal overdose 0
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