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
"You:It's a good start, Root is exactly the right word"
Perhaps you don't understand well enough. I DO feel bad for these little tramps, about as bad as I feel when a homosexual dies of AIDS.
You wanna dance, you pay the piper.
The dose a habitual heroin user routine takes, will kill a first time user.
For those of you who care to see a party she attended called: "The Last Rated X" , look here:
http://www.lastnightsparty.com/lastx/index.html
She is in the first picture and first picture on 3rd row.
I can see why they say she had a "promising future". As what I'm not exactly sure...
"I can see why they say she had a "promising future". As what I'm not exactly sure"
A future libertarian presidential candidate?
I expect much the same is true for alcohol.
Your savior also said 'do unto caesar's.'
You should listen to that part. I also think you make him extremely sad with your endless obsession with illegal drugs.
Just checked out your link. Yes, I...I feel so bad these IDIOTS will miss out on their "promising futures."
LOL! MY savior said "do unto others" and "render unto Caesar" ... sounds like YOUR savior emptied a few wineskins.
"Nobody could be more dirt poor than the Chinese immigrant laborers, yet they were avid users of various drugs."
And I am most certain as was back then as is today that the humans at the top of the food chain were mighty pleased making drugs available back then as is today. It's a form to profit by "control" and also to thin the herd below(two girls in this story). Always has been, always will be. Survival of the smartest. People aren't too smart when their brain is full of meth holes or trippin and halucinating on wacky jacky drugs. Goodness, (sarc)they might start figuring things out.
I meant render.. Oh well.
When you die though, if you see a lot of fire around, it's not for you to light up with. Try and keep that in mind.
Dead is dead.....the mormons are praying for their postmortem conversion as I type this...
The anti-moralistic libertarian version of christianity is nothing I want to be a part of, sorry.
Has about as much to do with things as the price of rice in china...
To say something is not within the proper authority of government to ban, is not to say it's moral or even neutral. Scripture offers no support for the infantile notion that all evil must be made illegal.
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.
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Really, I understand what you're getting at BUT I have actually worked with alcoholics, tobacco users and drug abusers. I'll take the alcoholics and smokers any day over NUTSY, spastic, hyper, paranoid enduced DRUG ABUSERS. Druggies are a flippin pain in the neck in the work environment. They're unreliable, constantly break things and have accidents on the job. When the drug starts wearing off mid morning they sneak off to nap it off. And when the clock rolls near the end of their shift they are so irritable and hateful because they're craving their next hit so badly that it effects their working abilities. I have never experienced such severe blatant problems with alcoholics or tobacco smokers. Keep druggies away from me, I can not stand to work with or around them. The liability out weighs everything.
What a pathetic evasion. Yet somehow I'm not surprised.
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