ICYMI: LI Drug Dealer Gets 16 Years In Prison For Fatal Overdose

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared earlier this week in the Lindenhurst Patch:

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY — An Amityville drug dealer was sentenced to 16 years in prison Tuesday for selling fentanyl to a man who overdosed and died in Copiague in 2019.

Austin "Mailk" Hunter, 43, was also sentenced to five years post-release supervision by Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei. Hunter was convicted in November 2020 of a host of drug charges.

"Whenever there is a fatal overdose in Suffolk County, we treat it as a homicide and immediately take investigative steps to identify the drug dealer responsible," Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini said. "With today's sentence, we are not just ensuring that he is held accountable and is no longer peddling deadly fentanyl in our community, but sending a message to other drug dealers that they will get caught and go to prison."

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