{"id":256243,"date":"2026-06-05T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256243\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:06:43","slug":"news-12-bronx-man-faces-federal-charges-for-allegedly-selling-fentanyl-that-led-to-multiple-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256243\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Man Faces Federal Charges For Allegedly Selling Fentanyl That Led To Multiple Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Pelham Bay man is facing federal charges for allegedly selling fentanyl that led to the deaths of three people.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Elvin Villa was arrested after a long-term investigation involving the DEA, NYPD and federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 43-year-old is accused of running a fentanyl distribution operation between 2023 and 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say the drugs he sold caused the overdose deaths of a 57-year-old man in Connecticut, and a 32-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man in Port Chester.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators allege Villa continued selling drugs after customers stopped responding to his messages and after multiple overdose deaths were linked to his drugs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say they recovered suspected narcotics, drug packaging materials, mixing equipment, cash, a firearm and a ski mask in his home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pelham Bay man is facing federal charges for allegedly selling fentanyl that led to the deaths of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-256243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}