# 159

Pennsylvania's "Drug Delivery Resulting in Death" law has a corresponding Federal Law.  24 year old woman sentenced to 21 years after being found guilty in December 2018; provided heroin, needle and recommended KFC bathroom in Philadelphia and  fled when 20 year-old "friend" overdosed.

The below article reports how both families feel victimized.  One for losing a daughter, the other for having a daughter who received a minimum-mandatory sentence of 20 years.  The women met in rehab.

"Jennifer Rose Werstler’s death on her 20th birthday in 2014 and Semler’s subsequent prosecution are another tragic tale among the many that have emerged from the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 3,000 people in Philadelphia in the last three years.

The two women met in rehab in Delaware County. Both relapsed. One died. The other lived, finally got sober, and survived to pay the price." (from the article)

https://www.philly.com/news/emma-semler-heroin-philly-jenny-werstler-drug-distribution-involving-death-mandatory-minimum-20190529.html

# 158

Federal/DEA charge of distributing substance which causes death carries 20 year minimum/mandatory sentence.  21 year-old woman charged Federally on May 1, 2019, in Arizona for giving two Fentanyl pills to young man who overdosed and died on Fentanyl in October 2018.  

The below article reports that a Mexican drug cartel has been mimicking oxycodone pills that really contain Fentanyl, are light blue in color and are produced by a pill-press which imparts numerals and letters suggesting that the pill is "oxy."  The article goes on to indicate that batches of these pills are brought into the US by persons being smuggled into the US at the Arizona border by drug cartels.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2019-05-10/dea-tucson-woman-indicted-for-3-overdoses-1-fatal