() — A Brooklyn man charged with the overdose death of actor and producer Michael K. Williams pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug distribution charges.
Irving Cartagena, also known as “Green Eyes”, is one of four accused of being part of a drug trafficking organization that sold Williams heroin with fentanyl, the substance that caused his death. Cartagena pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute fentanyl, heroin and other drugs.
Prosecutors say Cartagena was the person who carried out “the one-on-one transaction” with Williams just before the actor, best known for his role as Omar Little on the HBO series “The Wire,” died of an overdose. accidental.
Williams was found dead in his New York apartment in 2021 in what the city’s medical examiner ruled an accidental overdose. He was 54 years old.
“Irving Cartagena sold heroin laced with fentanyl in broad daylight in New York City, fueling an addiction and causing a tragedy,” the US Attorney General for the Southern District of New York said in a statement Thursday. . “In doing so, he administered the fatal dose that killed Michael K. Williams.”
Cartagena, 39, faces a minimum of five years in prison but could get up to 40 years behind bars when sentenced by a federal judge.
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Another of the defendants, Carlos Macci, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute narcotics this Tuesday, according to the judicial summary. The other two men accused, Héctor Robles and Luis Cruz, have pleaded not guilty.
