A person who allegedly gave a lethal quantity of fentanyl to a girl — even warning her that the medicine had been presumably deadly — has pleaded responsible to manslaughter.
William McNeill, 39, of Dorchester, pleaded responsible on Tuesday in Plymouth court docket to manslaughter and illegal distribution of a category A substance, fentanyl.
He was sentenced to serve 6.5 to 7.5 years in state jail. The Plymouth DA’s workplace had known as for a sentence of 12 to fifteen years.
“Today, William McNeill finally did right by Felishia Caraway-Mudd by admitting his responsibility in her death and allowing her family to move forward without having to relive this tragedy throughout a criminal trial,” DA Timothy Cruz stated in a press release.
“It is my hope that today’s guilty plea and sentence will provide solace to the victim’s family, and that cases like today’s send a strong deterrent message to drug dealers who are pedaling poison out in our communities,” the Plymouth DA added.
Again on Jan. 28, 2019, Mass State Police detectives assisted Plymouth Police with a drug overdose loss of life investigation involving Caraway-Mudd, a 23-year-old lady who was dwelling in a residential rehab facility.
Her cellphone was secured as proof, and investigators decided that suspected heroin and fentanyl had been being distributed utilizing two goal cellphone numbers that she had known as.
By cellphone data, Mass State Police had been in a position to join the cellphone to McNeill and his Dorchester deal with. Additionally, texts between McNeill and the sufferer present McNeill warning her that the product was probably deadly.
A Plymouth County grand jury voted to indict McNeill in September 2019, and he was arrested by Boston Police on September 13, 2020 — after failing to give up himself to regulation enforcement.
