Sentencing Postponed in Heroin-Related Death Case

By City News Service and Rebecca Whitnall

Sentencing was postponed Wednesday for a man who plead no contest to furnishing heroin to a 13-year-old who died of an overdose last summer.

Brett Michael Cronin of Woodland Hills pleaded no contest April 2 to a charge that he furnished the heroin to Timothy Matthews last August.

Matthews was spending the night at a friend's house in Woodland Hills when the fatal intravenous heroin dose was administered, a coroner's spokesman and Los Angeles County prosecutors said at the time.

Matthews, a friend of Cronin's 14-year-old stepbrother, went into a bathroom, where Cronin injected himself and the teenager, prosecutors said.

The sentencing has been postponed to June 24.