A spate of fentanyl deaths in San Bernardino in 2020 helped galvanize the campaign for tougher laws and harsher prosecutions.
Retired San Bernardino police Sgt. Steve Filson, center, and wife Cheri Filson, during a protest outside the San Bernardino Police in December 2020. The couple’s daughter, Jessica Filson, 29, and her boyfriend, Nicholas Castillo, 30, died of fentanyl poisoning on Jan. 22, 2020. A woman who allegedly sold a batch of fentanyl-spiked cocaine to a Redlands couple has been charged in their deaths nearly five years ago.
Saha allegedly sold fentanyl-spiked cocaine to three other men on the evening of Jan. 21 and the morning of Jan. 22 in 2020. One of those men, who has not been identified, overdosed but survived, while the other two, San Bernardino residents Donald Kelly, 33, and Cannon Farris, 42, died of acute fentanyl toxicity.
According to Saha’s plea agreement, filed in federal court on May 20, Saha went to the Third Street Tavern in Highland the evening of Jan. 21, 2020, to sell cocaine. There, he met Garcia, who also happened to be selling cocaine at the bar.
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