A Central Florida man was recently sentenced for death by unlawful distribution of fentanyl.
This month, 27-year-old Kevin Rasheed Richardson was found guilty by a jury of Death by Distribution of a Controlled Substance (Fentanyl) in connection with the July 17, 2021, death of 28-year-old Pavel Jesus Mata. After his conviction, Judge James R. Baxley sentenced Richardson to Life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Just shortly before midnight on July 17, 2021, deputies with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) responded to a call for service at Sarah’s Place Apartments in Clermont in reference to an unresponsive person. Upon arrival, officials located a male, later determined to be the victim, Pavel Mata, inside a vehicle in the parking lot, unresponsive.
Mata was transported by emergency first responders to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased just shortly after. A medical autopsy would later reveal Mata’s cause of death to be an overdose due to the amount of fentanyl in his system…