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Billy Ortega provided the drugs that caused the March 2021 fentanyl overdose deaths of Amanda Scher, Ross Mtangi and Julia Ghahramani.

Southern District of New YorkBilly Ortega, the man responsible for the fentanyl-overdose deaths of three young professionals in New York City, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday. The sentencing came two-and-a-half years after the March 2021 incident where a trio of New Yorkers texted a service for cocaine but was instead hand-delivered a fatal dose of fentanyl. The trio didn’t know each other personally, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2022, but they all had Ortega as th...

Billy Ortega, 37, ran a drug delivery service from his mother’s Manhattan apartment, coordinating deliveries by texting couriers and customers.

Billy Ortega intentionally mixed fentanyl with cocaine and sold it to five people. Three died.

May justice be served in her name.

Federal prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a drug dealer convicted for delivering cocaine laced with fentanyl to a BigLaw associate and two other New York City professionals, resulting in their deaths.

Cops and prosecutors told The Post that a record influx of Colombian cocaine has spurred the return of crack in New York City, where a rock can be bought for as little as $5.

The drug dealer who headed the cocaine delivery service that left three dead of fentanyl overdoses in one day was convicted in Manhattan court last week.

Billy Ortega was convicted of federal charges for the deaths of three New Yorkers he sold cocaine laced with fentanyl to.

(NEW YORK) — Amanda Scher, Ross Mtangi and Julia Ghahramani were three working professionals in New York City who did not know each other but shared a deadly commonality: on the same day in March 2021, they each ordered cocaine from Billy Ortega that killed […]