Three New Yorkers die of fentanyl overdose after ordering cocaine from drug delivery service [a dumb lawyer, a dumb trading executive, and a dumb social worker threw their lives away]

Fox News via Yahoo ^ | October 24, 2022 | Michael Lee

[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.

[NautiNurse]

In the original WSJ article, there is a photo of one of the dead chicks with her mother at a SJW protest event.

[cherry]

so sorry to say this but I have no sympathy for people "ordering up cocaine like it was a pizza pie.....

we make choices and some are such obviously stupid choices.....

[Dante3]

A “pizza delivery system” of drugs goes back years a decade or more to a cartel or family in Mexico distributing black tar heroin across the USA. It is discussed in Quinones’s bestseller “Dreamland.”

[DeplorablePaul]

You would think by now that realization that the illegal drug supply has been contaminated and the demand would fall. At a minimum the threat of death should chill casual drug use.

[Organic Panic]

I had just signed a business deal right about when the lock downs started. To celebrate the other guy got some cocaine. He died that night as it had been cut with fentanyl.

Yes... I know. If I had known his drug habit I would not have signed a business deal with him.

[gitmo]

I’m not very knowledgeable about street drugs. Can a person get addicted to the point where they cannot stop,

[metmom]

My sympathy meter must be broken. It’s reading zero.

Mine isn’t.

And it’s still reading zero.

Doing drugs is a choice. They did it to themselves.

Don’t do drugs and your risk from dying from them drops astronomically.

[Frank_2001]

All of East and Southeast Asia has the same policy. I agree with it 100%.

[minnesota_bound]

A nationwide convenience store chain called Circle K is going to start selling marijuana in 2023 in Florida...!!!

I imagine the lawsuits will bankrupt them soon after.

[Does so]

>>It will probably be in pot before long if it isn’t already.<<

I have been saying all along, “The history of Marijuana has not yet been written”...

[Does so]

>>We don’t have a fentanyl crisis, we have a druggie crisis.<<

I’m reminded of talk-radio phrase, “It’s NOT the guns—it’s your sons”.

>>...While China continues to wipe out our younger generations with Fentanyl.<<

Generations who are not students of WWII—who vote “feelings”.

[Does so]

>>What is the world coming to when you can no longer trust an anonymous illegal drug delivery service???<<

...they can afford to hire expensive Criminal-Defense lawyers...

[Hot Tabasco]

Billy Ortega, is now facing charges of causing the three deaths and distributing drugs.

Let him go, he's a thriving businessman with an obviously obnoxious clientele......

[Does so]

>>For being educated and knowing fentanyl is being put in drugs, they were not very smart.<<

Maybe educated in US universities?

[familyop]

I see potheads making dangerous moves on the highways in nice, late model pickup trucks and all kinds of other vehicles. Many of them are middle class and have too much local political influence. Shut the whole drug legalization regime down, and stop promoting drug abuse. Otherwise, the situation will only get far worse.

[Does so]

>>All the more reason to buy from your state sponsored and approved “dispensary”<<

You’re sounding nervous about recreational drugs.

[Osage Orange]

Wow...I should have died years ago.....I’ve had some beer.

[Does so]

>>If you’re willing to buy hard drugs from a unknown source, or any source for that matter, I suspect your willingness to do most other drugs is pretty high. Just a hunch.<<

Bears repeating...

[Does so]

>>The drug manufacturers, traffickers and pushers who recklessly profit from this are the ones who deserve death.<<

Don’t you remember, “We lost the War on Drugs”?

[x]

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.

But at least everybody in the story was "diverse."