A Brooklyn Drug Dealer Was Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For His Involvement In Actor Michael Okay. Williams’ Death

A Brooklyn drug supplier who performed a job in supplying fentanyl-contaminated heroin to the late actor Michael K. Williams  has been handed a five-year jail sentence.

On Friday, Decide Ronnie Abrams has issued a five-year jail sentence together with a three-year interval of post-release supervision for Hector Robles, a 59-year-old particular person who confessed to being a member of a four-person crew based mostly in Williamsburg. This crew was concerned within the sale of medicine to Michael Okay. Williams, resulting in his tragic overdose and subsequent passing.

Robles, who disclosed his lifelong battle with heroin habit, has additionally been mandated to endure drug remedy throughout his incarceration.

“As someone who has suffered my entire life, I am aware I have done bad things – especially destroying many lives in the community, especially myself,” Robles instructed the courtroom earlier than his sentence. “I didn’t know the drugs I was selling were affecting the families like it was affecting me.”

The sentencing of Robles signifies the conclusion of authorized proceedings associated to the tragic overdose of the beloved actor in his Williamsburg penthouse on September 5, 2021.

In a associated improvement, one other member of the Brooklyn drug-selling group, Luis Cruz, was additionally not too long ago sentenced to 5 years in jail. Moreover, Irvin Cartagena, acquired a extra extreme punishment of 10 years in jail for bodily delivering the medication to Williams in entrance of an condominium constructing on South third Road close to Havemeyer Road. In distinction, Carlos Macci, acquired probably the most lenient sentence on this case again in July when the identical choose sentenced him to two-and-a-half years.