Two El Paso women and a San Antonio man were sentenced to federal prison in unrelated cases where the people they sold fentanyl to overdosed on the deadly opioid drug, authorities said.
Kathy Lee Nicole Bradford, 32, was sentenced to 14 years in prison, while Patricia Tafoya, 40, received a year and nine months for dealing pills that contained fentanyl, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas officials said.
The pills resulted in the death of a 19-year-old El Paso single mother. Both Bradford and Tafoya also are from El Paso.
In an unrelated case, Brennan Dane Short, 49, of San Antonio, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on a drug charge after he sent fentanyl-laced pills to a woman through the mail. The woman fatally overdosed on the pills at an El Paso hotel.
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Short sold counterfeit “M-30” pills March 21, 2023, to a woman in El Paso, officials said. He mailed a package containing the pills from a U.S. Postal Service location.