Case DIH-0754
Genesis Tolentino-Cruz
With Orlando Albert-Arroyo, sold heroin at a Cheektowaga gas station in February 2019 to a woman who used it that night with her 24-year-old boyfriend; he was found dead the next morning in Buffalo.
- Court
- Federal, Western District of New York
- State
- New York
- Year of death
- 2019
- Year sentenced
- 2023
- Drugs
- Heroin
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin
- Plea or trial
- Not reported in reviewed source
- Sentence
- 120 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
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.govBuffalo woman who sold heroin which led death 24 yo man going prison 10 years
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