FREMONT — A San Jose man was jailed on a federal drug cost after the FBI alleged he offered tablets secretly laced with fentanyl to an unsuspecting bar patron in Fremont, who died minutes after taking the medicine.
The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for Northern California introduced Thursday that Ian Edward Parrish, 28, has been charged with one felony rely of illegally distributing fentanyl. He made his preliminary court docket look in an Oakland courtroom Thursday and was remanded to federal jail custody by Justice of the Peace Choose Kandis Westmore, based on court docket data.
In response to an FBI investigation underpinning the prison cost, Parrish was at a Fremont bar Aug. 16 when he approached the reported sufferer, a 46-year-old man from Cambridge, Ohio, and supplied to get them medicine.
Parrish confirmed them a transparent plastic baggie, which he instructed the Ohio man and his buddy contained Adderall tablets and Percocet tablets he known as “Perc 30’s,” the FBI said in an affidavit accompanying the prison criticism.
Throughout the trade, the sufferer “requested a number of instances” in regards to the legitimacy of the Percocet tablets, “as he feared counterfeit tablets which will comprise fentanyl,” and Parrish reportedly reassured him that the tablets had been genuine.
The sufferer’s buddy reportedly instructed the FBI that “Parrish by no means talked about that the tablets might comprise fentanyl.”
Ultimately the Ohio man agreed to purchase what he believed had been two Percocet tablets and two Adderall. The FBI said that man is believed to have then gone to his automotive within the adjoining parking zone to crush and snort a few of the tablets, and that Parrish left the bar.
Not more than quarter-hour after the sale, the Ohio man walked again into the bar and was turning white, based on the buddy’s retelling to the FBI. The sufferer appeared to fade out of consciousness, and fell to the bottom, prompting a number of onlookers to name 911 and report that the person had handed out and was not respiratory.
Fremont police and metropolis and Alameda County firefighters and paramedics responded to the decision, and located the person mendacity on the ground towards the again of the bar, based on the affidavit. They carried out CPR and different life-saving measures, however the man was pronounced lifeless at 6:43 p.m..
After studying in regards to the capsule sale from the sufferer’s buddy, Fremont police searched the sufferer’s automobile and recovered one of many purported Percocet tablets and the 2 Adderall tablets, indicating that the sufferer consumed one of many tablets he believed to be Percocet.
The county coroner’s bureau concluded that the person’s explanation for demise was from fentanyl and ethanol intoxication. Lab checks of the remaining “Perc 30” capsule revealed it was comprised primarily of fentanyl and methamphetamine, based on the FBI.
The utmost penalty for a conviction on the cost filed towards Parrish 20 years in jail and effective of $250,000. He's subsequent scheduled to seem in court docket March 21.