SAN FRANCISCO — A Concord man who sold a fentanyl-laced pill that killed a 14-year-old Concord girl has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison, authorities said.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sentenced 22-year-old Alejandro Urias on Thursday, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds of the Northern District of California. Urias pleaded guilty in July to a single charge of distributing fentanyl, Hinds said.
Urias in his plea agreement said he sold two counterfeit “M30” pills to a 14-year-old girl in the parking lot of a commercial plaza near Concord High on Aug. 20, 2021. That teenager gave one of the pills to a second 14-year-old girl, who ingested half of it.
That pill was laced with fentanyl, Hinds said; the girls father discovered her lifeless the next morning. Authorities did not identify her.
Hinds said Urias admitted in his plea agreement that he continued to sell the counterfeit M30 pills after the girl’s death. On Aug. 25, 2021, Urias sold roughly 150 of the counterfeit pills to an undercover agent from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency for $950, Hinds said. She added that he admitted the pills were found to have fentanyl in them.
Urias was set to begin his prison term immediately. He has remained in custody since his arrest on Sept. 8, 2021.
Hinds said Urias was arrested and charged through an investigation by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, which works to identify, interrupt and take down the highest-level drug traffickers.
