Selling fentanyl should be charged as homicide, on top of drug trafficking, a district attorney told the EpochTV’s “California Insider” program, where he explained the danger of fentanyl and what his office is doing to fight the deadly opioid crisis originating from “pure greed.” “The dealers are not trying to kill their clients. They just don’t care if they do,” said Michael Hestrin, the Riverside County District Attorney. “That’s kind of a murder.” In Riverside County, there’s an 800 percent increase in the number of fentanyl deaths between 2015 and 2020, Hestrin said. In just five years, the number of lives lost to fentanyl in the county has spiked from 2 to almost 600 per year, from 2016 to 2021, he said. To combat the surging fentanyl trafficking and death cases, Hestrin’s office has prosecuted 10 defendants—who sold fentanyl, knowing how toxic it was, and caused the death of a …
Selling Fentanyl Should Be Charged as Homicide: Riverside County District Attorney
February 23, 2022
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