A second-degree murder jury verdict for knowingly supplying fentanyl, a first for California, marks the next step in Riverside County’s war on drugs.
A Temecula man was convicted this week of second-degree murder for knowingly supplying fentanyl to a 26-year-old woman who died from the drug, the first jury verdict for a fentanyl-related homicide in California, Riverside County prosecutors said.
In Romero’s five-day trial, prosecutors brought forth video footage of Romero saying he gave and split a pill with King, knowing it contained fentanyl, according to aRomero, who remains in custody at the the county’s Southwest Detention Center, admitted to five additional charges in the case including possession of drugs while armed and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He’s scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 6.
Ricky Bluthenthal, a public health science professor at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, has called on lawmakers to embrace preventative approaches over harsher sentencing. “Fentanyl is like nothing we’ve ever encountered before,” he said. “People would lose their lives over the course of their addiction to heroin and methamphetamine and cocaine and we still see that, but nothing has presented the lethality that fentanyl has. It’s changed the landscape. It’s as simple as taking one pill, and that requires a different approach.”
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