Members of a drug organization sold heroin to “The Wire” star in September, “which was laced with fentanyl and a fentanyl analogue,” a federal complaint said.
Irvin Cartagena, Carlos Macci, Luis Cruz and Hector Robles are accused of operating a drug trafficking organization, from which Williams purchased laced drugs, according to documents filed by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and unsealed on Tuesday.
Williams, 54, was found dead at his apartment in Brooklyn, New York, in September. The New York City medical examiner’s officethat included the synthetic opioids fentanyl and p-fluorofentanyl. Undercover NYPD officers then made an estimated 14 sales from the suspected drug trafficking organization, which were recorded on video, the complaint said.
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