Authorities allege sellers discounted price of drugs to off-load deadly product.
Henek said authorities have video of people buying what police say were drugs from Marbley and Hayes, who were in the Mazda. He said one woman in her 70s drove to the rendezvous point in a motorized cart and later died. Another person was found dead in a nearby shed.“A lot of these people barely got around the block before they suffered an overdose,” Henek said.
Police on Friday said they arrested Marbley and Hayes, both of Northwest Washington, each indicted on three counts of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and cocaine. Two of those counts include distribution of drugs resulting in substantial bodily injury.In court on Monday, their attorneys each argued for their client’s release, noting family members willing to take them in while court proceeding move forward, and a lack of substantial criminal histories.
Ubong E. Akpan, with the Federal Public Defender’s office, said Marbley is innocent of all charges. She questioned the strength of the evidence and called into question accounts by witnesses who authorities said identified her client as selling drugs linked to at least seven of the overdoes.She noted prosecutors described two witnesses as having “indicated” they purchased drugs from the defendants.
Hayes’s attorney, Dwight E. Crawley, described the evidence presented by prosecutors as “very damning” but argued his client would not flee pending trial, and presents no danger to the community. He noted Hayes is not accused of obtaining the fentanyl she is charged with selling.But Faruqui noted police have not located the supply of drugs from which the sales took place, raising the possibility of additional people overdosing if more sales are made from the tainted cocaine.
“Instead of discarding these drugs, these two defendants went about selling these drugs to multiple customers,” Henek said, describing the deaths as demonstration of the “tragic consequences of fentanyl distribution.”
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