The woman who sold the fentanyl that led to a fatal overdose of a 19-year-old in Montgomery County will spend years behind bars, the state’s attorney’s office announced on Friday.
Evelin Cabrera, 20, who has no known address, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for her role in the death of Daniel Pineda-Romero in December 2022, when he was found unresponsive in his family’s home in Gaithersburg.
According to prosecutors, on Dec. 10, 2022, a family member found Pineda-Romero unresponsive, and first responders declared him dead at the scene.
“(His brother) saw him sleeping at 3 p.m. (on the day he was found), and just prior to calling 911, he went to wake him and felt him cold to the touch,” court documents state.
Toxicology results determined that the 19-year-old’s death was from fentanyl intoxication.
Investigators say that cell phone records show text messages and an Instagram exchange between Cabrera and Pineda-Romero coordinating a meet in Silver Spring to purchase pills hours before his death.