LANCASTER, Pa. — A Lancaster man will serve up to a decade in prison for providing fentanyl to a Lancaster County Prison inmates last year, causing one to fatally overdose.
Jamie Franco-Quinones, 50, will serve 4 to 10 years in prison, in accordance with a plea agreement.
Franco-Quinones and his son conspired to provide drugs to other inmates, including Franco-Quinones' other son, police say.
The father and son that was not in prison arranged for fentanyl to be place in a trash bin outside the prison. Authorities say that is where inmates on trash collection duty retrieved it.
According to the police, the fentanyl never made it to Franco-Quinones' son. Two inmates that used it overdosed, and one ultimately died.
On June 15, Franco-Quinones pleaded guilty to felony drug delivery resulting in death, and apologized "to everyone" during the sentencing hearing via video conference.
Franco-Quinones was also ordered to pay $4,600 for the victim's funeral costs.
Christopher Franco-Robles, Franco-Quinones’ son and co-defendant in the case, is serving a 7-to-25-year prison sentence.
Police say that recorded prison phone calls revealed the father and son’s conspiracy.
A day after the overdoses, Franco-Quinones discussed the overdoses in a phone call with his son, who was incarcerated.
“I sent that, so they could jump like rabbits in there,” Franco-Quinones said to during the phone call.
