A 26-year-old San Jacinto man who supplied a fatal dose of fentanyl to an acquaintance was sentenced today to 12 years in state prison.
Samuel Leo Mussaw last month admitted charges of voluntary manslaughter and possession of controlled substances for sale under a plea agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In exchange for his admissions, prosecutors dropped a second-degree murder charge against Mussaw.
During a hearing Tuesday at the Banning Justice Center, Superior Court Judge Jorge Hernandez certified the terms of the plea deal and imposed the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and defense.
Mussaw provided a quantity of fentanyl that claimed the life of 23-year-old Adam Young of San Jacinto on March 4, 2021.
According to Sgt. Rick Espinoza of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, deputies and paramedics were called to the 900 block of Cypress Drive, near Malaga Drive, that afternoon to investigate a possible drug overdose. Espinoza said Young was found unconscious and unresponsive in his house. Efforts by first responders to revive him were unsuccessful.