Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Task Force Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Christopher Roberts, and Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) Jessica S. Tisch, announced today the unsealing of a three-count superseding Indictment charging MOISES FREIRE and BRIAN PERALTA CABRERA with participating in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy that resulted in the fatal poisoning of one college student (“Victim-1”) and the near-fatal poisoning of another college student (“Victim-2”) in a college residence hall in Manhattan, New York this past March. The Indictment further alleges that after rendering both women unconscious through fentanyl exposure, FREIRE raped Victim-1, who never regained consciousness and later died. FREIRE is also charged with distributing fentanyl with the intent to commit a violent crime, specifically, rape.