Geneva man going to jail for selling fentanyl to teen girl who later died
Nov 08, 2024
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — An 18-year-old Geneva man admitted Friday that he knowingly sold fentanyl to a 16-year-old girl who died after taking the drug.
According to the Ontario County District Attorney's Office, the man, who was 17 years old at the time, disguised the fentanyl as a Percocet pill when selling it to the young girl.
"This family lost a child to illegal drugs sold to her by another child," said Assistant District Attorney Peter Van Dellon.
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Prosecutors said the drug was masked so well; it even included the stamp pressed into the pills.
The 18-year-old, now convicted of criminal sale and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degrees, faces six months of jail time and five years of probation.