SAN DIEGO—A San Diego man was sentenced Oct. 19 to 10 years in prison for selling fentanyl that caused a woman’s death.
Cole Thomas Salazar, 32, admitted to using online classified ads to sell drugs, including a November 2020 sale of powdered fentanyl to Sarah Elizabeth Fuzzell, 24. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Fuzzell died on Nov. 3, 2020, from the drugs she purchased from Salazar.
After conducting a search of Fuzzell’s phone, investigators posed as her in January of 2021 and arranged a fake drug purchase with Salazar, according to the prosecution’s sentencing papers.
Salazar and his girlfriend were arrested at a hotel near Horton Plaza, prosecutors said….