According to multiple media reports, “The Wire” actor Michael K. A drug dealer who sold deadly fentanyl-laced heroin packets to Williams pleaded guilty in New York on Wednesday.
Irwin Cartagena was charged with selling drugs to Williams on Sept. 5, 2021, in Brooklyn. He appeared Wednesday and pleaded guilty to one count of “conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a fentanyl analog, fentanyl and heroin.”
Cartagena will be sentenced later this year, and faces a mandatory minimum of five years in state prison. He was arrested in February last year after an extensive investigation that used body camera footage and other forensic sources showing Cartagena and associates had heard of Williams’ death.
Williams was shooting “Lovecraft Country” for HBO when his body was discovered in his New York apartment. It was determined that he died of an accidental overdose from the combined effects of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine.