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
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
Always makes it sound like more fun than it actually is...
I agree, she deserved to DIE. Perhaps you can volunteer for the FreeRepublic Death Squad operating in your area. We can kill all people behaving in a manner that conflicts with your preachers teaching? Later we can branch out to interracial couples, homos and the such. I have a suggestion for your screen-name - FinalSolutionguy. Did you know that Elizabeth Smart was a slut? I heard it here (honest) and the post wasn't pulled unlike this one. < /sarcasm>
The difference is that these kids ask for it. People that smoke something or inject something in order to feel good deserve no pity when it backfires. Karma
Obviously I'm using mind-control rays ... the mods forgot their tinfoil helmets.
I'll say this: you're good for a cheap laugh.
The city is not kind to the stupid or naive.
Then we laugh at each other then :)
Prove it with a link to a post that supposedly rebuts me.
Look, you think drugs are great. Fine. I just don't. I think drugs are dangerous and stupid as are those who use them. As far as inter-racial couples, I was married to someone of a different race for almost 20 years. As for Homos.....I don't care about them one way or the other....just don't ask me to shed a tear when they die due to their own irresponsibility.
Anytime you're on a drug thread. 'nuff said.
Why would you post a falsehood like that?
..."Did bad heroin kill two coeds?"...
Is there such a thing as good heroin?
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?
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Sorry I'm not going to debate drug abuse with a druggie advocate. Druggie advocates are like porn/prostitute advocates who expose how dim they are when they refer to engaging use of a prostitute as MAKING "LOVE" when we all know it's "paying" to have "SEX" not love with a stranger because the "john" is either to darn ugly to get a girlfriend or has intimacy or kinky issues. Like debating with a brick wall or the BTK serial killer.
What a cowardly dodge.
The sole purpose of heroin and speed is to get ugly guys laid by beautiful girls.
The side effects to that effect are tragic.
What an amazingly uninciteful reply yourself.
Anyway, why would I bother? You deny links anyway. I set you up with tons of links proving you use the same unique word play and sentence structure once proving you were mrleroy, you never admitted it.
So what's the point of talking to you ever?
See my post just above this one.
Sorry I'm not going to debate drug abuse
I understand ... if I were in your position of having the facts and logic against me, I wouldn't debate either.
The simple distinction I am making is that heroin is more lethal than alcohol.
With heroin, someone can consume a single lethal dose, where alcohol requires repeated doses over time to become lethal. Which makes heroin more lethal than alcohol.
You never proved that the word play and sentence structure were "unique." The fact that your links don't prove your claims doesn't absolve you of the burden of proving your claims; I've presented facts and logic, and you've presented squat.
Is it easier to kill yourself with heroin? Sure ... so what?
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