PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man from Mexico has been sentenced for his role in a Portland teenager’s overdose death, officials announced Monday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon said 27-year-old Manuel Antonio Souza Espinoza, a man from Mexico who had been unlawfully living in Portland, was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison with three years of supervised release on Monday for distributing fentanyl that led to the death of a Portland teen, along with possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
According to court documents, the investigation that led to Espinoza’s arrest started after the overdose of the teen on March 7, 2022.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the teen took a counterfeit “M30” Oxycodone pill that was laced with fentanyl…