{"id":417311,"date":"2026-07-30T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417311\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:31:08","slug":"spring-valley-man-indicted-for-alleged-fatal-synthetic-opioid-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417311\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Valley man indicted for alleged fatal synthetic opioid sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; A Spring Valley man accused of selling a synthetic opioid that caused the death of a San Diego man has been indicted by a federal grand jury, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office said today.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Ray Calas, 44, allegedly advertised drug sales on Craigslist through coded language and sold a crystal powder dubbed &#8220;red devil nitazene&#8221; to the unidentified 67-year-old victim, who prosecutors believe died shortly after he ingested the substance.<\/p>\n<p>Three months after the fatality, Calas allegedly sold more of the drugs to an undercover officer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office, the N-Pyrrolidino Protonitazene, or NPP, is similar to fentanyl and other powerful opioids. NPP is in the nitazene family, and some nitazene analogs have been tied to overdose deaths, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p>Calas faces charges that include distribution of N-Pyrrolidino Protonitazene resulting in death.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; A Spring Valley man accused of selling a synthetic opioid that caused the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-417311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417311","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=417311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}