Mom Whose Son Overdosed By Fentanyl Reacts To Arrest Of Alleged Dealer
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - A woman was arrested for selling Fentanyl, a drug that's responsible for killing at least 12 people.
"I wanted to see how proud he looks seeing his kids graduate from high school, when his daughter gets married and has her first baby," said Natasha Butler, who lost her son 110 days ago.
Natasha had high hopes for Jerome, 28-years-old and a father of three, but those dreams were cut short from a deadly pill.
"He didn't deserve that. He didn't. And for everyone else who took it as a Norco and it was willingly took, they assumed it was Norco," she said.
Jerome died in March after taking a pill made to look like a prescription painkiller, but was actually laced with Fentanyl.
While authorities aren't saying where those pills came from, they have made an arrest linked to Fentanyl.
According to a federal indictment, Mildred Dossman, also known as Denise, sold Fentanyl and hydrocodone between June 2015 and March of this year.
It's a synthetic opiate reported to be 80 times stronger than morphine, and a hundred times more potent than heroin.
Natasha said losing Jerome was hard enough, now she's just asking for peace.
"I know that justice is going to be served for ever one that had something to do with the death of my son. Justice is going to be served, but we do walk around with a hole in our heart."
If convicted, Dossman could serve up to 20 years in prison and pay a $1 million fine.
