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Case of actor Michael K Williams remains open

Although the causes of his death had been revealed more than four months ago, the case of actor Michael K Williams still has a lot to tell and a new chapter began this Wednesday, with the arrest of four people. As reported by the Nuevo Herald web portal this Thursday. The 54-year-old artist was found dead on September […]

Por Allan Brito
Case of actor Michael K Williams remains open
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Although the causes of his death had been revealed more than four months ago, the case of actor Michael K Williams still has a lot to tell and a new chapter began this Wednesday, with the arrest of four people. As reported by the Nuevo Herald web portal this Thursday.

The 54-year-old artist was found dead on September 6 in his apartment located in Brooklyn, New York.

An autopsy had revealed that the cause of death for   Michael K Williams was a drug overdose, specifically heroin.

Three people were arrested in New York

Manhattan police identified three people who were arrested as Irving Cartagena, 39, Hector Robles, 57, and Luis Cruz, 56.

A fourth man named Carlos Macci (70), was also arrested in San Juan, capital of the island of Puerto Rico, and was transferred this Wednesday to New York.

The defendants allegedly sold the actor heroin cut with fentanyl, a drug considered to be between 50 and 100 times more powerful than morphine, and another fentanyl-like substance.

“Today, along with our law enforcement partners from the New York Police Department, we announce the arrest of members of a drug (trafficking) gang, including Irving Cartagena, the man who allegedly sold him the deadly dose of drugs. to Michael K. Williams,” prosecutor Damian Williams said in a statement.

 

Michael K Williams became known for a role as a drug dealer

Michael K Williams rose to stardom on the big screen as drug lord Omar Little on “The Wire,” a series that ran for six years.

He was also seen in films such as “12 Years a Slave” (2013) or in the television movie “Bessie” (2015).

In 2016, he made a revelation in which he said that he had to seek help from the Christian church, in order to get out of the additions that were harming his acting career.

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