NEW YORK (REUTERS) – 4 males have been arrested and charged in final yr’s overdose dying of actor Michael Ok. Williams, who was greatest recognized for taking part in a shotgun-toting drug vendor within the HBO crime drama The Wire, the US prosecutor in New York Metropolis stated on Wednesday (Feb 2).
Williams, 54, was discovered useless in his New York condominium on Sept 7, police stated.
One of many males, Irvin Cartagena, was arrested in Puerto Rico and charged in a legal grievance unsealed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court docket with a narcotics conspiracy accusing him of distributing fentanyl-laced heroin, Damian Williams, the US legal professional primarily based in Manhattan, stated in an announcement.
Underneath one other legal grievance unsealed on Wednesday, Hector Robles, Luis Cruz and Carlos Macci had been charged as alleged contributors within the fentanyl and heroin conspiracy.
The three males, all from the New York Metropolis borough of Brooklyn, had been arrested on Tuesday, authorities stated.
“It is a public well being disaster. And it has to cease. Lethal opioids like fentanyl and heroin do not care about who you might be or what you’ve got completed,” Williams stated.
New York Metropolis’s Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner concluded that Williams died of “acute intoxication” by the mixed results of medicine together with the highly effective painkiller fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.
Different tv roles that received Williams reward included characters he portrayed in Boardwalk Empire, Bessie and Lovecraft Nation.
