A Long Beach man was found guilty by a jury Friday of distributing fentanyl-laced cocaine that resulted in the overdose deaths of two victims engaged to be married.<\/p>\n
Stephen Johnson, 43, was found guilty in Los Angeles federal court of two counts of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death and two counts of distribution of cocaine.<\/p>\n
According to evidence presented at the four-day trial, the victims paid Johnson $240 on the night of May 24, 2023, and in exchange, he twice gave them cocaine. The victims then attended a concert in West Hollywood before returning to Johnson\u2019s home about 3 a.m. on May 25, 2023, to pick up the remainder of their cocaine, which contained fentanyl.<\/p>\n
The victims then returned to their residence in Brea, where they consumed the narcotics and suffered fatal overdoses.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson scheduled an April 20 sentencing hearing, at which time Johnson will face between 20 years and life in federal prison, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long Beach man was found guilty by a jury Friday of distributing fentanyl-laced cocaine that resulted in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-160669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}