Ex-Long Beach EMT Faces 29 Years in Prison for Selling Fentanyl Resulting in Coworker’s Death

Ex-Long Beach EMT Faces 29 Years in Prison for Selling Fentanyl Resulting in Coworker’s Death
Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed before a press conference regarding a major drug bust, at the office of the New York Attorney General, in New York City, on Sept. 23, 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Sophie Li
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A former Long Beach, California, first responder was sentenced on June 14 to over 29 years in federal prison for selling fentanyl to two coworkers, which resulted in one’s death, authorities said.

Cruz Noel Quintero, 43, of Long Beach, was found guilty in September 2022 on counts of distributing fentanyl resulting in death, possessing machine guns and unregistered firearms, maintaining a drug-involved premise, and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, according to a June 14 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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