SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — The Seminole County sheriff says three people, including a California man, are now facing first-degree murder charges in a local man’s fentanyl overdose death.
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Deputies said those three people trafficked tens of thousands of pills from Los Angeles to Central Florida.
The sheriff said one of those pills killed a man in Apopka.
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The victim’s mom said her son, 27-year-old Tristan Buttrum, struggled with pain for years.
She said Buttrum was prescribed Percocet for that pain, and when he couldn’t get it prescribed, he bought it from people he knew.
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He died in January after taking a pill he thought was Percocet.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said their investigation led them to three men.
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He said this is not a case of accidental overdose, but a murder and that is what they are charging the three men with.
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