EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for distributing fentanyl-laced pills that lead to the death of an El Paso woman, according to the United States Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Texas.
Brennan Dane Short, 49, sold counterfeit M-30 pills through a short mailed package to a purchaser in El Paso on March 21, 2023, according to court documents.
On March 27, 2023, the purchaser of the pills was found dead at a hotel, according to court documents.
The El Paso County Medical Examiner’s Office said that the woman had 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, according to court documents.
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