{"id":262800,"date":"2026-06-11T04:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262800\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T04:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:07:53","slug":"news-12-westchester-bronx-man-accused-of-selling-fentanyl-tied-to-three-fatal-overdoses-in-stamford-and-port-chester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262800\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Bronx Man Accused Of Selling Fentanyl Tied To Three Fatal Overdoses In Stamford And Port Chester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Federal prosecutors say a man is facing serious charges after being linked to multiple deadly overdoses in the region.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say a 57-year-old man from Stamford was the first of three victims who died after allegedly receiving fentanyl sold by 50-year-old Elvin Vila of the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to a newly unsealed complaint, Vila repeatedly drove from the Bronx to meet the Stamford victim in the weeks leading up to his death in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say when the victim stopped responding, Vila continued selling fentanyl to others.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say those actions are tied to two additional overdose deaths in Port Chester.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Vila is now charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death, along with three counts of distribution resulting in death.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Each charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors say a man is facing serious charges after being linked to multiple deadly overdoses in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-262800","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\/262800","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=262800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}