A California father who lost his 20-year-old daughter to accidental fentanyl poisoning is moving to get legislation passed that would charge drug dealers with murder if their distribution of the deadly drug results in death.
Matt Capelouto’s daughter was found dead in her bedroom after suffering from a fentanyl overdose in 2019. At Capelouto’s initiative, Alexandra’s Law – a bill named for his daughter – was introduced to strengthen the penalties for fentanyl dealers. California state Democrats struck down the legislation in April, but the grieving father said drug dealers will continue to “get away with murder” until law enforcement starts treating fentanyl overdoses as homicides to hold the “death dealers” accountable.
“It really starts at the local level. When law enforcement shows up at one of these drug deaths, the very first thing that needs to be done, is it needs to be treated as a crime, treated, a crime scene, needs to be sealed off and treated as and investigated as a homicide,” Capelouto said Wednesday on “America Reports.”
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“The first thing is, is recognizing that there’s a crime here, somebody delivered a poison that resulted in somebody’s death. And then on top of that most of our states, California leading the way, have terrible laws in terms of holding these death dealers accountable. So we need better laws to back up law enforcement and we need law enforcement to investigate the cases criminally so we can go after the death dealers and get them off the streets.”
Capelouto lost his daughter in 2019 during her college winter break in Southern California after she took a fentanyl-laced Oxycodone pill. Alexandra was studying on a full academic scholarship at Arizona State University.Â
Capelouto is hoping to get the bill passed during the current legislative session to spare other families from suffering the same tragic fate….
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