Man was so high that he burned his car while inside: horror in New York – El Diario NY

Perry Freeman was arrested and accused of distributing the fentanyl that caused the dramatic death of a man inside a car that caught fire in Yorktown (NY).

Freeman, a 37-year-old ex-convict, was also charged with illegal possession of ammunition, two years after the unidentified man’s death, the newspaper reported Monday. fiscal federal Damian Williams.

He sold fentanyl to a victim who died a horrible death: he passed out from ingesting lethal levels of the drugs. “The engine caused a fire that engulfed the vehicle and burned the body.”

According to the indictment, in November 2021 Freeman sold fentanyl to his victim. Shortly after, police responded to a report of a Car on fire in parking lot in Mohegan Lake, approximately three minutes drive from the suspect’s apartment building.

Officers found a Ford Focus on fire. The victim was in the driver’s seat with his foot on the accelerator pedal. After firefighters put out the fire they removed the victim, who was pronounced dead. Investigators determined that the vehicle caught fire while parked after overheating while the accelerator pedal was depressed excessively. It was concluded that the victim had passed out from fentanyl consumption.

“As alleged, Perry Freeman sold fentanyl to a victim who died a horrible death shortly after taking the drugs. Investigators concluded that the victim parked his car and, with her foot on the accelerator, passed out from ingesting lethal levels of the drugs allegedly provided by Freeman. The motor caused a fire that engulfed the vehicle and burned the victim’s body. We also allege that Freeman regularly sold fentanyl to a confidential informant and warned him to be careful with the drugs, stating that he knew how unsafe his product was. “This Office will not rest until those who traffic in this poison are brought to justice,” explained Prosecutor Williams. it’s a statement.

The Office of the Medical Examiner westchester county performed an autopsy. According to a report prepared by the Department of Laboratories and Research, the victim had lethal levels of both fentanyl and norfentanyl in his blooda metabolite of fentanyl, and there was some darkening of his lungs, indicating smoke inhalation before his death. The cause of death was certified as both acute fentanyl poisoning and an accident.

DEA Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III noted: “The data doesn’t lie and authorities continue to track the fatal fentanyl poisonings to the person responsible. “This arrest is an example of the efforts of the DEA and our law enforcement partners to thwart further drug poisonings and bring to justice those responsible for causing the most harm to our communities.”

Freeman has been charged with distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, which carries a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life in prison; and one count of unlawful possession of ammunition as a convicted felon, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

The DEA is part of an ongoing task force with the NYPD and other agencies seeking to raid drug factories, especially after the boy Nicholas Dominici died from a fatal overdose in his daycare in the Bronx, where he was exposed to fentanyl. Three other babies were resuscitated with Narcan in that embarrassing incident in September that led to the arrest of four Hispanics, one of whom had fled to Mexico.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be used to mix drugs such as cocaine or heroin to produce an effect up to 50 times stronger.

The growing fentanyl supply has exacerbated the city’s drug epidemic: the deadly opioid is detected in the 80% of overdose deathsaccording to the Department of Health (DOH).

Also at least 43 cases of fentanyl overdose, seven of them fatal, They are linked to two separate patterns of robberies at nightclubs in and around Manhattan dating back to September 2021.

“Fentanyl is the most significant threat to our public health and public safety,” special agent Tarentino highlighted in January. “It’s poison…. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Every day we have more seizures. In New York City there is a drug overdose every three hours. At the national level it is every five minutes, 295 a day.”

In 2022, New York municipal authorities launched a controversial campaign on public transportation with “tips” to consume fentanyl “safely,” which some described as counterproductive and irresponsible.

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