Michael K Williams Death: Feds & NYPD Arrest Four For ‘Wire’ Star’s Overdose
deadline.comJust under five months after Michael K. Williams was discovered dead in his Brooklyn home, four men have been arrested and charged with narcotics conspiracy in The Wire star’s death.“Today, along with our law enforcement partners at the NYPD, we announce the arrests of members of a drug crew, including Irvin Cartagena, the man who we allege sold the deadly dose of drugs to Michael K.
Williams,” said Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York this morning of fentanyl-laced heroin sold to Williams last September.In near identical complaints (read here and here) unveiled today, the DOJ alleged that over a period from “August 2020 to in or about January 2022” Hector Robles, Luis Cruz, Carlos Macci and Irvin “Green Eyes” Cartagena sold drugs in Williamsburg as part of a larger “drug trafficking organization,” as the filings state.
With vivid security camera photos and informant aided info, the detailed complaints lay out how the addiction battling Williams got the drugs that killed him off the quartet and how he “died as a result of using that fentanyl-laced heroin.”“Despite knowing that Williams died after buying the DTO’s product, the DTO has continued to sell fentanyl-laced heroin, in broad daylight, amidst residential apartment buildings,” both complaints damningly declare.
The charges against the four come with a mandatory minimum sentence of five years behind bars and a maximum sentence of 40 years.
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