Prosecutors accused a 21-year-old man of selling the fentanyl-laced cocaine that had spring breakers dependent on intensive care ventilators at a Broward County hospital.
Highlights
- Axel Giovany Casseus, 21, is accused of selling the fentany-laced cocaine that caused 7 overdoses.
- The tragedy on Thursday at a rental home in Wilton Manors included four cadets from the U.S.
- Military Academy at West Point.
- Four of the seven hospitalized voluntarily ingested the cocaine; the other three came into contact with it when they performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Six were hospitalized first, and the seventh felt ill later.
- A judge set his bond at $50,000; he remains at the Broward Main Jail on a pending 2020 case on a charge of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling.