Alpine, KMID/Kpej – A man in Colorado was sentenced to 20 years in prison for Ventanil’s distribution in Texas after the death of a man from the Alps as a result of the dangerous drug.
According to the court records, on January 29, 2024, Douglas Christopher Steel, 54, from Denver, agreed through a text message to send 20 fentanel pills to the title of a man who lives and works in the Alps, Texas, a city in the southwestern region of the state near the Mexican border. After that, Steel informed the victim that he sent birth control pills on February 2 and February 5, and his co -worker received the delivery of Fedex.
Through additional text messages, the victim and Steele discussed how the drug was “strong”, and after midnight February 6, the victim wrote Steel and told him that he was “an extra dose.” Later that morning, a resident of the Alps was found that he did not respond in the bathroom at work and was transferred to the area hospital where he announced his death.
Investigations in the Criminal Investigation Department at the Ministry of Public Safety at the Ministry of Safety in Texas Steel were identified as the supplier of fentanel and was charged on May 9, 2024 in Becus for two charges related to the distribution of fentianil and was arrested in Denver on May 11. He admitted guilty on November 18, 2024.
Jason T. said. Stevens, a special agent responsible for internal security investigations, in a press statement on Wednesday: “Fintanel traders are trading in death.” “This sentence reflects the risk of the commitment of crime and security investigations into internal security to ensure the face of severe consequences.”
Why is fentanel very dangerous?
Fake anesthetic drugs are often closed in fentanel, which is a fatal drug so that the skin can lead to serious symptoms, and sometimes without the user’s knowledge.
“Ventanil itself is 80 % to 100 % more powerful than morphine, it’s very strong opium,” said Dr. Jeff Pino in an interview in 2022.
It can cause difficulty breathing, low blood pressure, low heart rate, loss of consciousness, coma, or death. Only milligrams of dangerous drug can be fatal. Once a person takes the medicine, with knowledge or unaware, the savior intervention of life often comes very late, as many teenagers and youth try drugs alone and away from a person who can intervene.
In the state of Texas, the deaths associated with fentanel are no longer called “excess doses” and instead they are called poisoning and anyone who holds drugs to a person who dies with death.