SoCal woman convicted of murder for supplying lethal fentanyl dose: 'Shes an evil person'

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Set us as preferred When Esther Lopez went to her son’s bedroom to check if he was hungry, she found him slumped over on a table, cold to the touch.She called 911 and paramedics rushed to the Moreno Valley home and started CPR, according to court documents.

But it was too late.Jesse Jimenez was dead of a fentanyl overdose at 27.On Friday, the woman who supplied him the lethal dose, 23-year-old Savanna Michelle Carlos, was sentenced to 15 years to life after a jury found her guilty of second-degree murder.Riverside County Sheriff’s Office detectives recovered a burned fentanyl pill, tin foil and a cellphone from Jimenez’s bedroom after he died on Feb.

2, 2023, according to court documents.By examining his messages and other evidence, they determined that Carlos had provided him with fentanyl after he reached out to multiple dealers seeking the drug.“Why couldn’t she just say no? She’s an evil person,” Lopez wrote in a statement presented at Carlos’ sentencing hearing.

“A friend will pick you up when you fall, not kill you.” California The dealer who sold Jax Markley a fatal fentanyl pill will serve six years — a conviction made possible by a new effort to investigate overdoses as murders, not accidents.Detectives also uncovered evidence that Carlos was well aware of the dangers of fentanyl, as she was present when another person was poisoned by the drug several months earlier.On July 30, 2022, Riverside County sheriff’s deputies responding to a reported overdose found Carlos performing CPR on an unconscious man.

At that time, she received a clear warning from law enforcement about fentanyl, according to court documents.Nonetheless, she continued to sell the drug, including the dose that ultimately killed Jimenez, prosecutors said.By analyzing social media, phone and financial records, detectives foun...