Posted on 10/24/2022 12:25:06 PM PDT by grundle
Three New York professionals died of fentanyl overdoses after ordering cocaine from the same drug delivery service, leading to charges for the dealer behind the deliveries.
"Julia was a driven professional with everything to live for. Never in a billion years would she have touched anything with fentanyl," Sassan Ghahramani, whose daughter Julia Ghahramani died of a fentanyl overdose, told the Wall Street Journal in a report Sunday. "This is like putting bullets in people’s brains."
Julia Ghahramani, a 26-year-old lawyer who had just started her first job, died of a fentanyl overdose in March 2021. That same day, 40-year-old trading executive Ross Mtangi and 38-year-old social worker Amanda Scher also died of a fentanyl overdose. The three professionals all ordered cocaine from a GrubHub-like delivery service on the same day, but the drugs turned out to be laced with a deadly amount of fentanyl.
The alleged drug dealer in the cases, Billy Ortega, is now facing charges of causing the three deaths and distributing drugs. He has pleaded not guilty in the case and is awaiting trial.
Prosecutors allege that Ortega was a stay-at-home dad selling drugs out of his house in rural New Jersey and used a courier, Kaylen Rainey, to deliver the drugs. Rainey was living in a Manhattan apartment registered to Ortega's family, receiving text message instructions for deliveries from Ortega.
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Good riddance to bad trash.
We don’t have a fentanyl crisis, we have a druggie crisis.
Three idiots gone.. works for me.
Marked safe from dying of fentanyl-laced cocaine here.....
“Julia was a driven professional with everything to live for. Never in a billion years would she have touched anything with fentanyl,”
She would never do that. But ordering cocaine, well that’s somehow something she would do.
All six votes of their votes will still be cast for democrats - 3 live, 3 dead.
And the NYC 2030 census will include their names.
We're doomed...
I see the Media's interest and problem here, it's been a year and a half and they still can't figure out how to blame this on Putin and Russia.
What is the world coming to when you can no longer trust an anonymous illegal drug delivery service???
These three were all idiots for taking any kind of drug from unknown illegal sources. Playing roulette.
I thought the Silk Road had been shut down?
I would also say we have a crisis of:
People in positions of trust and responsibility who think that their reckless actions, personal and professional, will have no consequences for them.
My sympathy meter must be broken. It’s reading zero.
Wow.
Having been in a high-stress job in NYC, I can say that using coke at any level is a very bad omen. But using it at the beginning of a career is a sign this career wasn't going to last long.
What a wasted life.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Considering their professions, They should have known there are fentanyl testing strips. Instead they basically bought drugs off the street. For being educated and knowing fentanyl is being put in drugs, they were not very smart.
My friend and I had a discussion about this story,..She has lost family to drugs and so have I...My take is it was their choice..A stupid choice, but their choice..Her take was we don’t know their reason....It doesn’t matter..It did not end well..Their choice and our discussion....
In essence the drug users are being poisoned. Fentanyl has invaded all illegal drugs. It will probably be in pot before long if it isn’t already.
This is a war plain and simple. Close the borders and shoot the anyone running drugs on the spot.
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