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Leonard Greene

Dealer caught on camera selling deadly drugs to actor Michael K. Williams, prosecutors say

NEW YORK — Actor Michael K. Williams’ tragic overdose death last year resulted from a narcotics conspiracy carried out by callous drug dealers who knew they were peddling a deadly product, officials said Wednesday.

Four people were charged in Manhattan Federal Court in the death of the popular “The Wire” actor, who died in September from a deadly mix of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.

Among those arrested on federal charges of participating in a narcotics conspiracy was Irvin Cartagena, 39, a Brooklyn man accused of selling to Williams the deadly dose of fentanyl-laced heroin.

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