{"id":135478,"date":"2026-01-28T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135478\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:38:08","slug":"fort-myers-and-cape-coral-men-indicted-on-murder-charges-in-fentanyl-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135478\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers and Cape Coral men indicted on murder charges in fentanyl deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Two Southwest Florida men are facing first-degree murder charges after a Lee County Grand Jury determined their distribution of fentanyl led to fatal overdoses.<\/p>\n

State Attorney Amira Fox announced the indictments against Joseph Henry Roberts of Fort Myers and Vadim Manafov of Cape Coral following separate incidents that resulted in multiple deaths.<\/p>\n

Roberts faces two charges: first-degree murder for unlawful distribution of fentanyl and sale or delivery of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n

\"Joseph<\/p>\n

LCSO<\/p>\n

According to State Attorney Amira Fox, the indictment states that between October 4 and 5, 2025, a Lee County woman died after being given fentanyl that caused or was a substantial factor in her death.<\/p>\n

Manafov faces six charges, including two counts of first-degree murder for unlawful distribution of fentanyl, unlawful distribution of fentanyl resulting in overdose or serious bodily injury, and three counts of sale or delivery of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n

\"VADIM<\/p>\n

LCSO<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, between June 29 and 30, 2024, a Lee County man and woman died due to fentanyl that Manafov gave to them. A third person overdosed on fentanyl, causing serious bodily injury, the State Attorney said.<\/p>\n

This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Two Southwest Florida men are facing first-degree murder charges after a Lee County Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-135478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}