Former sailors plead guilty in fentanyl death of USS Abraham Lincoln sailor
Two former U.S. sailors pleaded guilty after selling counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl to active-duty Navy personnel in San Diego, including pills linked to the overdose death of a sailor assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln, according to prosecutors.
The guilty pleas were entered Monday morning in federal court in San Diego by Bailey A. Szramowski and Johnnese H. Poomaihealani. Both admitted to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.
Court records say Szramowski provided 10 purported oxycodone pills in December 2022 to a sailor assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln. The sailor, identified in court documents only as A.N., died of acute fentanyl intoxication the following month.
Prosecutors said Szramowski sold three more purported oxycodone pills to another sailor, identified as C.L., 10 days after A.N.’s death. C.L. was hospitalized after a suspected overdose but survived.
Szramowski and Poomaihealani then called C.L. and told the sailor to tell law enforcement that the pills came from A.N., rather than Szramowski, according to court records.
Szramowski faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 40 years in prison, while Poomaihealani faces up to 20 years. Both are scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 11.
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