City, county officials to pursue stricter penalties for fentanyl dealers [Breaking]
At a press conference this week, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria announced he would issue an executive order this month that directs staff to prioritize the city’s response to the fentanyl crisis.
Last year, 812 people in San Diego County died after taking the drug. In the first six months of this year, another 825 people overdosed on fentanyl.“We will not make or accept excuses for letting this crisis continue to grow out of control,” Gloria said Thursday. “We are going to own this, and we’re going to make sure we’re tackling it at every level.”
District Attorney Summer Stephan said at the conference that the maximum sentence someone could face for selling fentanyl, even if that sale led to a fatal overdose, is three years. In 2017, a Poway man was arrested on suspicion of selling pills laced with the drug to a friend who later overdosed and died. The suspect, Alfred Lemus, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced in 2018 to 15 years in prison for the death. He was the first local drug dealer to be charged with murder after an overdose, city officials said.
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