Jason Saha faces up to 40 years in federal prison in the 2020 deaths that prompted the father of Jessica Filson to help launch an anti-fentanyl campaign.
Retired San Bernardino police Sgt. Steve Filson and wife Cheri Filson with a moon-shapred urn filled with ashes of their daughter, Jessica Filson, in Highland on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. The family helped start Victims of Illicit Drugs, or VOID, after their daughter died from fentanyl-spiked cocaine in 2022 in Redlands.
Investigators soon discovered that two other men died the same day from the same cocaine they shared with Saha, who also overdosed but survived. Another man who obtained the drugs from Saha also overdosed, but he survived as well. Screenshot from “Dead on Arrival,” a documentary/public safety announcement warning of fentanyl’s dangers. Clockwise from top: Amy Neville holding a photo of her son Alexander, who died at 14; Steve Filson with daughter Jessica, who died at 29; Jaime Puerta with son Daniel, who died at 16; and Matt Capelouto with daughter Alexandra, who died at 20.Retired San Bernardino police Sgt.
Other parents who lost children to fentanyl poisoning also signed on with the group. Among them were Santa Clarita resident, whose 14-year-old son, Alexander, died of fentanyl poisoning on June 23, 2020; and Temecula resident Matt Capelouto, whose 20-year-old daughter, Alexandra, died less than a month before Jessica Filson after ingesting half a counterfeit oxycodone pill.
“There were 90,000 drug deaths nationwide in 2020, and about half of them were a direct result of fentanyl,” Filson said. Those numbers continued increasing in subsequent years, with 112,000 drug deaths in 2023, 75% of them attributed to fentanyl, he said.. Saha bought cocaine off the woman, and the two went to near where she lived in San Bernardino County, where Saha purchased more of the cocaine from her. The two, “aiding and abetting each other,” sold the fentanyl-laced cocaine to Filson and Castillo.After departing ways with the woman, Saha then sold more of the drug to the man in identified as “D.V.” in the plea agreement. He ingested the drug and overdosed, but survived.
Investigators quickly tied the deaths of Cannon and Kelly to the deaths of Filson and Castillo in Redlands, and established the link between Saha and the woman who supplied the cocaine to him, Kohrell said.
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