EL PASO, Texas – A San Antonio man was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl-laced pills through the mail that led to the death of an El Paso woman.
According to U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District of Texas, Brennan Dane Short, 49, sold counterfeit M-30 pills to a purchaser in El Paso on March 21, 2023.
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Short mailed a package containing the pills from a US Postal Service location. Six days later, the purchaser of the pills was found dead at a hotel.
The El Paso County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the woman died of acute methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl toxicity, though she “would not have died but for the fentanyl.”
Short was arrested on Aug. 15, 2023. He pleaded guilty on April 4 to one count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death or serious bodily injury.