A Wyandanch man was sentenced to nine years in prison for selling crack cocaine and fentanyl to a 25-year-old woman who died of an overdose.
On November 13, 2022, at about 9:00 p.m., Justin Llewellyn sold fentanyl and crack cocaine to Yasmine DeLeon, of Ronkonkoma, and another individual at a hotel in Ronkonkoma. The next morning, DeLeon was unresponsive to attempts to wake her up. A few minutes later, Llewellyn entered the room and administered Narcan to DeLeon, which had no effect.
When law enforcement arrived at the scene, they were unable to resuscitate the victim, and she was subsequently pronounced dead. Llewellyn was arrested at the scene and found in possession of narcotics, including fentanyl.
Law enforcement executed a search warrant of Llewellyn’s vehicle and recovered drug paraphernalia including scales typically used to weigh drugs, and an “overdose kit” containing multiple doses of unused Narcan.
At the time of his arrest on this case, Llewellyn was out of jail and awaiting sentence on a prior drug conviction from 2021.
On March 27, 2024, Llewellyn pleaded guilty to Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree and Conspiracy in the Fourth Degree before State Supreme Court Judge Richard I. Horowitz. Llewellyn admitted to participating in a narcotics distribution network and to having committed 10 separate overt acts in furtherance of the drug conspiracy. (Llewellyn was one of 21 defendants indicted last April following a long-term narcotics and gun trafficking investigation.)
On May 15, 2024, Horowitz sentenced Llewellyn to nine years in prison followed by three years of post-release supervision on the instant case, and two-and-a-half years in prison followed by one year of post-release supervision on the prior case from 2021.
“‘Chelsey’s Law,’ which is currently pending before the New York State legislature, would allow prosecutors to charge drug dealers with manslaughter where there are reasonable grounds to know that the substance that they are selling will cause death,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. “Unfortunately, under current New York State law, all prosecutors can do is charge and seek penalties for the drug sale itself, with no additional charges or penalties for the death that was caused. This must change. I hope that our legislators do something to help stop the epidemic of opioid overdoses that we are seeing across New York State.”