Drug kingpin let OD victims die while he and pals cleaned hotel, ate at Wendy’s — now he’s facing super-sized prison time

Source: New York Post

A Long Island drug kingpin let two overdose victims die in a hotel while he cleaned up and went to Wendy’s with his henchmen — but now he’s been hit with a super-sized jail sentence. Russell Defreitas, known on the streets as “Merc,” had told his goons not to call 911 while a man and a woman OD’d inside his room at an unidentified hotel in March 2023, Suffolk County prosecutors said Tuesday — as the fentanyl and crack peddler was slapped with a 53-year prison sentence. Instead the fentanyl and crack peddlers cleaned the room of drug paraphernalia and went to the nearby fast-food joint, only calling 911 hours later after the two had died, according to the District’s Attorney’s Office.