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
I understand ... if I were in your position of having the facts and logic against me, I wouldn't debate either.
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I understand that you are only interested in baiting, repition and get your jollies with endless banter. I bet you re-read your own posts to feed and bolster your insatiable ego. Face it, your life as a narcissis is a lonely drag.
I proved my case, you dropped the subject.
You're a poor debater and a liar.
You have wandered into the swamp of debating legality of drugs with a proponent. I suggest you consult the map of common sense and head back to the main road.
"Face it, your life as a narcissis is a lonely drag."
Narcissism and paranoia, hallmarks of illegal drug use. And know your rights spews forth with it everytime he posts.
I'm a veteran of it. The users are persistant, but so am I.
*yawn* More personal attacks from WODdies with no facts or logic to offer. In other news, dog bites man.
The bad heroin might have killed the two coeds. Using it certainly did.
As opposed to good heroin? :-(
There is no end to it.
I proved my case, you dropped the subject.
What subject? Whatever you're claiming, let's see the proof.
You're a poor debater and a liar.
LOL! You can't buy irony like that.
Yes, I...I feel so bad these IDIOTS will miss out on their "promising futures."
Perhaps you two can get together and celebrate the death of young girls or stupid young people in general? It is a fun and rewarding hobby judging from the comments on this thread. After all it could NEVER happen to any teenager you know, right. These girls were damaged goods from the git go! They deserved to die and their deaths should be mocked!
So you don't think their deaths are "a good start" as one FReeper posted?
There would be much less of a problem then.
I proved that you're mrleroy, that's all.
Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean much. You don't get anything it seems, except 'pro drugs forever'.
"Why would you post a falsehood like that?"
Given the stance of the PERSON I WAS REPLYING TO I think it was as apt as calling me a racist homophobe without having the first clue about me or what I stand for.
Exactly. Two fast deaths from 'bad' heroin. Or two slow deaths from heroin addiction. Either way, illegal drugs kill. The cops should find another way to label it, illegal heroin (I'm no scientist, does heroin have any 'good' uses?) is always bad. It is an absolute waste of two talented young womens lives. And, frankly, they probably, at their ages, had heard all the 'don't do drugs' talk and the DARE presentations, yet they were sucked in by the 'allure' anyway. A tragedy whether they are 2 young coeds or 2 high school drop outs.
RIP girls. May God hold you in His hands.
Amen, I survived the stupidity and invincibility of my youth by the grace of God.
False. Although you do deserve credit for just that once trying to prove your claims.
Do you talk to your dealer like that?
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