SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Two former U.S. Navy sailors who sold fentanyl to San Diego-based servicemembers, including one who suffered a fatal overdose, pleaded guilty today to federal charges.<\/p>\n
Bailey A. Szramowski, 25, and Johnnese H. Poomaihealani, 29, are slated to be sentenced later this year for selling counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to active-duty servicemembers, including during deployments, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say that in late 2022, Szramowski sold one sailor 10 pills. The victim, who was assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln, later overdosed and died of acute fentanyl intoxication.<\/p>\n
Ten days later, Szramowski sold more pills to another sailor while being aware of the first sailor’s death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.<\/p>\n
After that sailor was later hospitalized for a suspected overdose, from which he recovered, prosecutors allege Szramowski and Poomaihealani told him to tell police he got the pills from the sailor who died.<\/p>\n
The defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and are set to be sentenced in December.<\/p>\n
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