Death of “The Wire” actor Williams: Dealer pleaded guilty

he confessed for selling the drug mixture that led to a fatal overdose to the 54-year-old. Irvin Cartagena said he sold the fentanyl-spiked heroin to the actor “in broad daylight in New York City,” a US district attorney said Wednesday. Williams died of an overdose in September 2021.

Heroin was stretched

After reaching an agreement with the public prosecutor, the dealer faces a minimum sentence of five years – but up to 40 years in prison are possible. The agreement signed by Cartagena states that the mixture he sold caused the actor’s death. Four men were arrested in February and charged with distributing the diluted heroin. According to prosecutors, they continued to offer the drugs in residential areas in Manhattan and Brooklyn months after the death of “The Wire” actor. Cartagena had been pinned down in Puerto Rico.

Williams, one of the stars of HBO’s hit series “The Wire”, was found dead in his New York apartment in September 2021. The New York coroner’s cause of death was “acute poisoning from the interaction of fentanyl, P-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine”. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is about 50 times more potent than heroin. The US anti-narcotics agency DEA described fentanyl as the “deadliest drug threat in this country”.

Williams became internationally known for his role as gay murderer Omar Little. The five seasons of the series about the rivalries of drug dealer gangs in the US city of Baltimore ran from 2002 to 2008. The actor has repeatedly spoken openly about his drug addiction in interviews and says that he spent a large part of his earnings from the series on drugs had spent.