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
Going the religous route in order to legalize drugs is one of the funniest and most ridiculous arguments in history.
Congrats!
Sounds just like alkies to me. And why should government ban ALL use of a substance because it makes SOME users bad workers? Staying up too late impairs one's work ... should government institute mandated bedtimes?
Should of used the "good" heroin, I guess.
Then surely you can easily rebut it. So far all you've done is call it names.
Get a hobby besides spamming FR with pro-illegal drug, anti-alcohol propaganda.
Names like peewee and squirt? Hahah.. You blew your little presentation with those jibes my friend.
A single dose of heroin for a routine heroin user, can be lethal to a first time heroin user.
What kind of liquor can be lethal in a single dose?
If it's spamming I'd have been banned. Maybe you should get a hobby besides spamming FR with fact-and-logic-free whining about my posts.
You have been banned, under MrLeroy, Kingisdead, and onmyfeet.
Diversity is PC Code Pink for Perversity!
You are seeing the ugly Dark under belly of the beast. Debauchery and depravity filled with Shims, slims and
freaky What-is-its. The fall of the Roman Empire and Sodom and Gomorrah acted out in tiny playhouses across big city HELL HOLES.
What kind of liquor can be lethal in a single dose?
A habitual drinker doses himself over the course of many swallows. If you think that distinction has any meaning, I have to disagree.
Whatever. You've been rebuted plenty of times, over and over. There's no need for me to repeat it. You seem to enjoy wallowing in the same drug filled wasteland however.
This fantasy of yours is irrelevant to my lengthy posting history and my non-banning as "Know your rights".
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...
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All the freaky geeks at that "orgy" have a promising future in HELL. And they go gleefully. The thinning of the brain dead herd. The funny(strange) thing is, they're all deluded from self inflicted doping into actually believing they're the fittest for survival.
Now you're stooping to baseless falsehoods. Figures.
Somehow you're getting away with it now, but you're not fooling anyone. You use the same style and subject to a T.
Not false, it's the truth.
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