Drug Dealer Implicated in Michael K. Williams' 2021 Overdose Death Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
etonline.comThe Wire star Michael K. Williams was sentenced to 30 months in prison, according to. On Tuesday, Carlos Macci was among four men arrested on drug trafficking charges tied to the death of Williams.
Macci was sentenced to 30 months in prison, plus three years of supervised release, with the first year in an inpatient drug treatment facility.“I would like to say, your honor, I’m sorry for what has happened,” Macci said, according to the outlet.David Simon, a co-creator of, wrote a three-page letter to the judge seeking mercy for Macci.
Simon had a close relationship with Williams, who was open about his struggles with addiction.«No possible good can come from incarcerating a (72-year-old) soul, largely illiterate, who has himself struggled with a lifetime of addiction and who has not engaged in street-level sales of narcotics with ambitions of success and profit but rather as someone caught up in the diaspora of addiction himself,» Simon wrote.«Michael would look at Mr.
Macci and hope against hope that this moment in which he finds himself might prove redemptive, that his remaining years might amount to something more, and that by the grace of love and leniency, something humane and worthy might be rescued from the tragedy.»Williams' nephew, Dominic Dupont, spoke outside the courtroom after the sentencing came down. «Today was a sad day.
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