A 72-year-old drug dealer who was arrested in connection and charged in the death of Michael K. Williams was sentenced to two and half years in prison.
In addition to his prison sentence, he was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and will attend an inpatient drug treatment facility.
Carlos Macci was one of four men arrested on drug trafficking charges regarding Michael K. Williams’ death. Williams died in September 2021 after taking heroin degraded with fentanyl he bought from Macci’s Brooklyn crew. Prosecutors claimed Macci and the three other defendants kept selling heroin mixed with fentanyl after Williams succumbed to a fatal overdose.
“I have struggled with the decision I’ve had to make today,” the judge told Macci. “Selling drugs like heroin and fentanyl not only cost Mr. Williams his life, but it’s cost you your freedom.”
David Simon, co-creator of The Wire, pleaded to the judge to go easy on Macci.
“I know that Michael would look upon the undone and desolate life of Mr. Macci and know two things with certainty: First, that it was Michael who bears the fuller responsibility for what happened,” he wrote. “No possible good can come from incarcerating a 71-year-old soul, largely illiterate, who has himself struggled with a lifetime of addiction.”
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