A scheduled change-of-plea hearing was delayed Friday until next month for a Downey man who has agreed to enter a guilty plea to a federal charge involving the sale of fentanyl-laced prescription pills that caused the death of a 17-year-old girl.
Jonathan Limas-Reyes, 27, is now expected to plead guilty on Aug. 11 to a charge of distribution of fentanyl, which carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
On Oct. 29, 2021, Limas-Reyes sold the pills to the Downey teen, he admitted in his plea agreement filed in Los Angeles federal court.
Use of the pills “resulted in the death and serious bodily injury of victim A.K.,” court papers state.
“If not for the fentanyl that A.K. received … A.K. would have lived,” prosecutors wrote.
Limas-Reyes “knew it was illegal for him to sell the pills to A.K., and knew that they contained fentanyl or some other federally controlled substance,” according to federal prosecutors.
The defendant agreed not to oppose a term of imprisonment of 14 years, his plea agreement says.