Contra Costa Man Sentenced In 14-Year-Old's Fentanyl Death

CONCORD, CA — A Concord man was sentenced Friday in federal court in Oakland to eight years in prison after admitting he supplied a fentanyl-laced counterfeit pill that caused the overdose death of a 14-year-old girl, U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds said.

Alejandro Valentino Urias, 22, pleaded guilty July 21 to a single charge of distribution of fentanyl. According to his plea agreement, on Aug. 20, 2021, Urias sold two light blue counterfeit “M30” pills containing fentanyl to a minor teenage girl in the parking lot of a commercial plaza near Concord High School.

The minor teenage girl then gave one of the pills to a second teenager — identified in court documents only as “Victim 1.” Victim 1 ingested one-half of the fentanyl-laced pill, which caused her to fatally overdose. Victim 1’s father discovered her the next morning. Victim 1 was 14 years old at the time of her death.

Urias admitted in his plea agreement that he continued to sell counterfeit M30 pills following Victim 1’s death. Indeed, four days later, on Aug. 25, 2021, Urias sold roughly 150 counterfeit M30 pills to an undercover DEA agent for $950.

The defendant acknowledged in his plea agreement that the pills he sold to the agent were tested at a DEA laboratory and found to contain fentanyl.

Urias has been in custody since his arrest on Sept. 8, 2021, and will begin serving his prison term immediately.

In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Urias to serve 36 months of supervised release that will begin after the conclusion of his prison term.

The prosecution was the result of an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration with the assistance of the Concord Police Department.