San Diego Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Selling Fentanyl That Killed Woman

Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed at the office of the New York Attorney General in New York City on Sept. 23, 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

SAN DIEGO—A San Diego man was sentenced Oct. 19 to 10 years in prison for selling fentanyl that caused a woman’s death.

Cole Thomas Salazar, 32, admitted to using online classified ads to sell drugs, including a November 2020 sale of powdered fentanyl to Sarah Elizabeth Fuzzell, 24. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Fuzzell died on Nov. 3, 2020, from the drugs she purchased from Salazar.