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The body of a 60-year-old College Point man was discovered on Aug. 5, 2019 inside a room at the Airway Inn at LaGuardia Airport in East Elmhurst.
By Michael V. Cusenza
A Rego Park woman has been sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for distributing narcotics and causing the deaths of multiple victims, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
In August 2021, former prostitute Angelina Barini, 43, pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing narcotics that caused the deaths of a person; one count of distributing fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine; and one count of conspiring to distribute gamma-butyrolactone (GBL).
As detailed in court filings and statements at court proceedings, between July and August of 2019, Barini provided narcotics to her victims to incapacitate and rob them of their belongings while sometimes conducting business as a sex worker. On multiple occasions, those narcotics contained lethal doses of fentanyl. On July 4, 2019, Barini met with a victim at a motel in Astoria and gave him fentanyl-laced drugs. The victim was found dead later that day.
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In August 2019, City cops discovered one of Barini’s victims in a room at this motel on Elmhurst.
On July 11, 2019, Barini met with a victim at a motel in Woodside and gave him fentanyl-laced drugs which caused his overdose death. On Aug. 5, 2019, Barini met another victim in College Point and gave him fentanyl-laced drugs which caused his overdose death.
Additionally, on Aug. 18, 2019, Barini met a victim inside an Elmhurst motel room and drugged him with GBL, which is commonly referred to as a “date rape” drug. The victim died shortly after entering the motel room and Barini made repeated attempts to dispose of the victim’s body without being detected. On Aug. 21, 2019, the NYPD found the victim dead in the motel room. The victim’s body had been wrapped in bleach-stained sheets and placed inside of a garbage bin.
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said Barini “drugged and killed multiple people for a few quick dollars. She stole their personal belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the lethal drugs she gave them. [Her] substantial prison sentence is warranted by her shocking disregard for human life.”
