{"id":261611,"date":"2026-06-10T06:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261611\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:35:13","slug":"nyc-man-arrested-in-connection-with-stamford-fatal-overdose-feds-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261611\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC man arrested in connection with Stamford fatal overdose, feds say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A New York City man has been arrested for selling fentanyl to three people who later suffered fatal overdoses, including a 57-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamfordadvocate.com\/news\/stamford\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stamford<\/a> man, federal officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of more than a million tragedies, we all have learned a simple and deeply disturbing truth: if you deal in fentanyl, you deal in death,\u201d said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials said a recently unsealed indictment alleges Vila drove from the Bronx to other locations to sell fentanyl to his customers between 2023 and 2026 as part of the drug-trafficking conspiracy.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Officials said Vila\u2019s customers included a 57-year-old Stamford man and that he sold narcotics to the individual at least 10 times in the months leading up to his overdose death on or about April 16, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vila sent the man several text messages asking if he was \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cok\u201d several days after their last meeting, but got no response because the victim had died after consuming the drugs, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About one day after his last unanswered text message, Vila delivered narcotics to a 69-year-old man from Port Chester, New York, who later shared them with a 32-year-old woman, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old woman, who was also from Port Chester, died of an overdose from the same drugs that Vila had distributed around a week later on or about April 25, 2025, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the woman\u2019s death, Vila continued to make deliveries of narcotics to the 69-year-old man. The man later died on Jan. 21 from a drug overdose, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said law enforcement searched Vila\u2019s house in the Bronx on Thursday and found narcotic powders, narcotics mixing and stamping equipment, numerous glassine envelopes for individual packaging and a safe containing a gun, cash and a ski mask. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Vila faces between 20 years to life in prison, if convicted. They noted the Stamford Police Department assisted with the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 A New York City man has been arrested for selling fentanyl to three people who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,30495],"class_list":["post-261611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-stamford-advocate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261611","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=261611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}