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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Three New Yorkers died from fentanyl overdoses on the same day after ordering cocaine from the same delivery service run by stay-at-home dad who has now pleaded not guilty to causing their
2022-10-25
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Only a phone call away
  • Three New York City professionals died on the same day in March 2021, after ordering cocaine from the same delivery service

  • Victims are Ross Mtangi, 40, a trading executive at Credit Suisse Group AG, Julia Ghahramani, 26, a first-year lawyer and Amanda Scher, 36, a social worker
    All three highly educated, so they should have known that there are risks to buying illegal drugs. Darwin always wins.
  • Prosecutors say they ordered cocaine from Billy Ortega, whom they accuse of arranging New York City drug deals from his home

  • The drugs were then allegedly delivered to the victims by Kaylen Rainey, a courier for Ortega who lives in an apartment registered to Ortega's family

  • The victims apparently did not realize the cocaine was laced with fentanyl

  • Both Ortega and Rainey have since pleaded not guilty to causing the three deaths and distributing drugs, and are awaiting trial
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  The trend is towards legalizing the illegal drugs and making it illegal to avoid being dosed with the legal ones.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-10-25 16:35  

#10  Both Ortega and Rainey have since pleaded not guilty to causing the three deaths and distributing drugs, and are awaiting trial

So when are the Big Pharm executives going to be arraigned for knowingly distributing the jab knowing full well the probability of fatal reactions beyond prior-Covid accepted norms for various groups of people?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-10-25 16:34  

#9  Do drugs and die... I hope a lot more of this class of people die because everyone knows the laws are for the control of the plebeians!
Posted by: Papa Cooky   2022-10-25 16:30  

#8  These are the ELITE that are running our cities.

I'm so glad I'm an old fart enjoying my retirement in a log home in NH.
Posted by: AlanC   2022-10-25 14:51  

#7  ^ Well, with special additives
Posted by: Frank G   2022-10-25 14:43  

#6  You can order cocaine from a delivery service???
Posted by: Tom   2022-10-25 13:47  

#5  they should have known

Addicts will.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-10-25 13:31  

#4  If your drugs are cut with fentanyl, you should be charged with premeditated murder. No one buys cocaine to get a barbiturate opiate high. If you are doing lines, you probably been drinking - and drinking and fentanyl do not mix. Dealers should know this and should be charged accordingly.

That said, tell me if this is fair:

All three were highly educated, so they should have known that driving carries a risk - darwin wins.
Posted by: mossomo   2022-10-25 12:34  

#3  Hope Mr. Ortega and Ms. Rainey go to jail for a good long time but in New York City who knows?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-10-25 11:35  

#2  I'm sure they all thought it was the fashionable thing to do. Maybe they thought a little tootski in the morning would be just the thing to help them get ahead in their careers. Then just a couple hits in the afternoon to get past that post-lunch drowsiness. But Ortega figured a little fentanyl added to the cocaine would get his clients hooked and coming back for more. He just wasn't all that good at mixing it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-10-25 11:31  

#1  If shooting victim families can sue gun manufacturers...is that sufficient precedent to sue drug dealers in user deaths?
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-10-25 10:27  

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