OAKLAND — In a plea take care of federal prosecutors, a Bay Space girl admitted to promoting fentanyl inside Santa Rita Jail, which led to the overdose dying of an incarcerated girl, court docket information present.
Kameron Reid, 37, admitted to possessing fentanyl for distribution and inflicting the dying of Lee Esther Anderson, a 41-year-old girl who died after taking a dose of fentanyl that Reid offered her, in response to court docket information. Reid has been out of custody since January, a month after she was charged in federal court docket, however agreed to give up Friday.
She is about to be sentenced in October by U.S. District Choose Jon Tigar, a federal decide with a repute for exhibiting compassion to defendants who come earlier than him.
The legal criticism towards Reid, written by an FBI agent, states that one other incarcerated girl advised authorities that Reid gave her and Anderson fentanyl that didn’t have any impact, so she promised to present them one other dose she known as the “massive canine.” Reid allegedly smuggled the medicine across the jail by hiding them in a physique cavity.
Reid marketed pink, white, and green-labeled fentanyl to indicate doses with totally different concentrations, prosecutors stated. Fentanyl is a really potent artificial opioid that's roughly 50-100 occasions stronger than morphine and may kill individuals who ingest very small quantities.
A tribute video posted about Anderson’s reminiscence describes her as a former rising basketball participant at Skyline Excessive College in Oakland, and says she attended San Diego State College. The information station KTVU reported she left behind a daughter and had a profession within the music trade. Court docket information say she’d been sentenced for a DUI cost simply two months earlier than her August 2020 dying.
Reid was charged final December and was launched to a sober residing house a month later. She has handed common drug checks since then and expressed a want to assist others in restoration, in response to a help letter by the house’s program director that was filed in federal court docket. Her lawyer fought her return to Santa Rita, writing in a court docket movement that Reid has been totally compliant with launch situations and is in danger from “retaliatory inmates and others at Santa Rita.”