A 25-year-old Santa Ana man with a previous felony conviction was sentenced Thursday to 23 years in federal prison for dealing fentanyl to a 17-year-old girl who died.
Anthony Aguirre sold 10 pills containing fentanyl to the victim and two of her friends on Sept. 30, 2022, in Fullerton, according to his plea agreement.
Aguirre sold at least 11 pills for $15 each containing fentanyl to another girl, according to the plea agreement. He sold pills to a 14-year-old girl in October 2022 “on several occasions,” according to his plea deal.
“On or about Oct. 15, 2022, (the teen victim) complained to Aguirre that she was throwing up,” according to his plea agreement. “Aguirre told (the victim) that those were withdrawals and that (the teen) wouldn’t feel better until she took more pills.
“On or about Oct. 16, 2022, in Huntington Beach… Aguirre knowingly distributed at least three pills containing fentanyl to (the victim).”
That victim overdosed but survived.
Aguirre unknowingly sold drugs to an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration on Nov. 3, 2022, in the parking lot of South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, according to his plea agreement.
He also sold at least seven pills containing fentanyl to another girl on Nov. 27, 2022, who overdosed but survived.
On Nov. 30, 2022, in Laguna Beach Aguirre sold 11 pills containing fentanyl to a boy, according to his plea deal.
When he attempted to sell more pills to the undercover agent on Dec. 8, 2022, Costa Mesa police busted him and found “a small baggie inside the driver’s side door containing 20 pills containing fentanyl,” according to the court papers.
When authorities searched his home they found 1,284 pills containing 163.3 grams of fentanyl, 28.4 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine, 25 grams of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, 77 grams of cocaine, 299 tablets containing 94.6 grams of the designer drug Bromazolam. They also found a loaded Glock gun in his home.
Aguirre pleaded guilty in August to distributing fentanyl to a minor and being a felon in possession of a gun. U.S. District Judge Fred Slaughter also ordered him to serve eight years of supervised release when he finishes his prison time.