{"id":317183,"date":"2026-10-29T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317183\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:10:10","slug":"reading-man-convicted-for-drug-deliveries-that-resulted-in-fatal-overdoses-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317183\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading man convicted for drug deliveries that resulted in fatal overdoses | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A Berks County man was convicted by a jury Thursday for his role in a string of fatal drug overdoses from nearly four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Martinez-Espinal, 38, of Reading, was convicted of nine counts of drug delivery resulting in death, as well as multiple other delivery charges, the Berks County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced.<\/p>\n<p>On April 9, 2022, the Reading Police Department responded to numerous overdose deaths caused by crack cocaine laced with fentanyl, according the DA\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Martinez-Espinal was selling the drugs out of 855 Penn St., along with his co-defendants: Melanie Emerich, Jesus Santiago-Caceres and Angelo Torres.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez-Espinal was apprehended in Charlottesville, North Carolina, at a family member\u2019s residence, police said. He also had local theft charges in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez-Espinal\u2019s sentencing date is Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A Berks County man was convicted by a jury Thursday for his role in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,6823,20950,94746,5876,12313,43874,49274,40550,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-317183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-conviction","tag-crack-cocaine","tag-drug-delivery-resulting-in-death","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-fentanyl","tag-jesus-martinez-espinal","tag-jury-verdict","tag-overdose","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}