Posted on 08/17/2005 11:44:14 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
Two college coeds used cocaine with a pair of convicted drug dealers and had fresh needle marks on their arms when they overdosed in a lower East Side apartment, sources said yesterday.
Police believe a bad batch of heroin may have contributed to the deaths of Mellie Carballo and Maria Pesantez, both 18 and with promising futures.
It was unclear who supplied the drugs, but heartbroken relatives of the victims blamed Roberto Martinez, 41, and Alfredo (Tito) Morales, 33, who were with the teens Friday when the students apparently overdosed.
"How is it possible that they are free?" asked distraught father Juan Carlos Pesantez outside the family's home in Jackson Heights, Queens. "With those [criminal] records? With two girls dead?"
Carballo, a second-semester student at Hunter College, and Pesantez, an NYU sophomore, were found about 6 p.m. Friday in an apartment at 484 E. Houston St. Carballo died 20 minutes later and Pesantez died Sunday.
The men admitted doing cocaine with the women, who met at St. Vincent Ferrer High School in Manhattan, a law enforcement source said.
Martinez, who placed a bouquet of red roses in front of the E. Houston St. apartment yesterday, told a different story to the Daily News. He said he came to the apartment, where Morales lives, after Morales called him in a panic.
"I saw [Pesantez] in the bedroom catching a seizure," Martinez said yesterday. "I tried to give her mouth-to-mouth and then I called 911."
Martinez said he met Carballo at a bar about a month ago and didn't meet Pesantez until Friday. He denied giving the women drugs, saying they brought drugs to Morales' apartment.
No one has been arrested and toxicology results are pending.
Morales was convicted in 1995 of possession of cocaine with intent to sell. Martinez, whose is on parole, has 13 narcotics arrests.
The coeds' friends told cops the women wanted to try heroin, a police source said. The friends also told police that Carballo, a former MTV intern, and Pesantez, a pianist and National Honor Society member, had done drugs before.
Relatives dispute that account.
"To my knowledge, she had never experimented with anything," said Celeste Carballo, 21, who shared a room with her sister at the family's West Side apartment.
College students Mellie Carballo (left) and Maria Pesantez, both 18, in an undated photo. The coeds died of suspected drug overdoses in a lower East Side apartment
Photos taken from memorial at http://www.lastnightsparty.com/mellie/index.html
It could be, there have been several periods of severe abuse in the US. Coca Cola, it is rumored, had Coke at one time....
No, you're just preaching and crying like a baby over this. Fake emotion worthy of a Sheehan award.
It was one of the best exchanges on talk radio I have ever heard! The lady was going on and on about "America's Past" and that Savage was lying to his listeners that things were better in the past. Then she went on saying more people were taking drugs in America in the 20s-30s, and 50s. He just let her talk for a while, until she ran out of things to say, and then he let her have it. He really went wild when she said that Berkeley hands out doctorate degrees like they were candy.
Wrong. I want government to stop creating disincentives for the market to provide safety devices.
Apples and oranges. There's a substantial difference in the levels of use of the legal drug alcohol versus the legal drug tobacco; and there are even wider differences in the levels of use of the various illegal drugs ... so there's no reason to think that legal status explains any such differences. And the fact that street prices are stable or falling weighs against your claim that the law does anything to reduce drug use.
They took the drugs.
They died.
Now you are in the "blame someone else game?"
Sure you shouldn't be over at DU with that attitude?
Blah blah blah..
Do you enjoy saying the same thing 500 times a week? You realize nobody cares, and hardly anyone agrees with you except the most severe liberaltarians.
You can go on your pro-heroin crusade though, it's very amusing.
*yawn* When facts and logic are against you, you stoop to personal attacks, as usual.
Blah blah blah.. [...] nobody cares, and hardly anyone agrees with you
Nice rebuttal, peewee.
"Careful, we already have the loony libertarians saying legalize Heroin....this'll put 'em over the top."
Hey let the chumps use it, it will ultimately put them (6 feet) under, not over the top.
"Do you root for such deaths?"
No, root is the wrong word....but neither am I saddened when some mental midget dies of their own volition. Thins the herd so to speak. In the case of these two morons, before they could breed, thank goodness.
You: "it's a good start." Root is exactly the right word.
"Gimme a Hooker, an ounce of smack and I'll show ya a good F'n time!"
Nikki Sixx of the Rock Group Motley Crew.
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Speaking of Motely Crew. Check out Tommy Lee, what a sad case he is. Isn't he going on 50 years old? His new reality show shows he is still a burnt out cokehead. His eyes are cloudy and dull, he's constantly unfocused in conversation, antsy and has the attention span of a knat, constantly licks his lips and rubs his nose the way former cokehead actor Tom Arnold use to when he was using. All behavorial traits of a serious drug abuser.
I wouldn't use it if you paid me ... but that's also true of the legal drugs alcohol and tobacco, yet I support their legality as well.
"He really went wild when she said that Berkeley hands out doctorate degrees like they were candy."
LOL Well don't they? Doesn't take much for the Savage man to go wild, it's in his nature.
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