Manhattan federal prosecutors announced the arrests of four people in the death of actor Michael K. Williams. He died last September from overdosing on fentanyl laced heroin.
The Daily Mail reports, police named Irvin Cartagena, 39, of Brooklyn, as the man who allegedly sold the drugs to Williams. Cartagena was arrested in Puerto Rico. Three alleged co-conspirators, Hector Robles, 57, Luis Cruz, 56, and Carlos Macci, 70, all from Brooklyn, were arrested on Tuesday in New York. The four men are said to have been apart of part of a drug trafficking organizations since August 2020, operating in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. They are primarily focused on fentanyl and heroin-laced fentanyl as they sold the drugs inside an apartment, where Cartagena, known as ‘Green Eyes,’ met up with Michael on September 5, 2021, to allegedly sell him the drugs.
Cartagena was captured on video surveillance selling to Williams. Below are still pics from that footage.
“As these federal charges show, the NYPD’s narcotics and precinct detectives in Brooklyn North lived this case, never relenting in their investigation until they could bring a measure of justice to Michael K. Williams and his family,” New York Police Department Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.
U.S. Attorney General Damian Williams released a public statement about the arrest of the suspects.
The day after the surveillance was taken showing Michael purchasing the heroin, he was found unconscious the next day by his nephew face down in his apartment.
All four men were charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl analogue, fentanyl, and heroin, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 40 years. Cartagena was also charged with causing the death of Williams, which is a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison.
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