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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 24-year-old pistillate who was the archetypal idiosyncratic successful Fresno County to beryllium charged with execution related to fentanyl successful 2022 was recovered blameworthy connected Wednesday, the county's territory lawyer announced.
The DA's bureau says that connected March 26, a assemblage convicted 24-year-old Cassidy Marie Gonzalez of second-degree execution successful the fentanyl-overdose decease of 41-year-old Jade Dreith.
Jade died successful 2022 aft taking a pill that investigators judge was laced with fentanyl. According to Dreith's sister, Sage Drieth, Jade took a symptom pill to assistance her with backmost pain, but she had nary thought that it was laced.
41-year-old Jade DreithDistrict Attorney Lisa Smittcamp says justness has been delivered to Jade's household aft the first-ever assemblage condemnation successful a fentanyl execution proceedings successful the county.
"This verdict is simply a testament to our steadfast committedness to protecting our communities,
seeking justness for victims, and holding accountable those who administer illicit fentanyl that
leads to death,” Smittcamp said.
Gonzalez remains successful custody astatine the Fresno County Jail and is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected Thursday, April 24, 2025, astatine 9 a.m. She could look a imaginable condemnation of 15 years to life.
