The Virginian-Pilot
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VIRGINIA BEACH
A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to distribute the prescription painkiller fentanyl.
Nabil Issa Butros, 29, arranged for his former roommate to provide patches of the powerful drug to one of two young men who overdosed, according to prosecutors. David Ellison, 19, and Barry Sullivan, 18, were found dead on the morning of Jan. 3 at Ellison's home with fentanyl patches on their shoulders.
According to prosecutors, Butros was working at a Chick-fil-A when Ellison, a coworker, asked him for some Percocet, another painkiller. Butros didn't have any but knew his former roommate, Jason Coker, had fentanyl patches for sale. Coker sold 10 patches to Ellison for $100, according to prosecutors.
Ellison, Sullivan and a third friend spent that night at Ellison's. In addition to using the patches, Ellison and Sullivan consumed alcohol and Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, according to prosecutors. Autopsies indicated that Sullivan and Ellison died of multidrug intoxication.
Butros faces a maximum sentence of 10 years. Coker is awaiting trial.
"I want him to get every day that he can get in there," Sullivan's mother, D'Andrea Dietrich Sullivan, said of Butros.
Jen McCaffery, (757) 222-5119, jen.mccaffery@pilotonline.com
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And here I always thought
And here I always thought all Chick-fil-A workers were screened by God before being hired.
Screening
No...only the cows!
I am sorry for the families
I am sorry for the families losses. Parents can talk to the kids all they want. The kids turn on the tv and are overloaded with ads telling them if this is wrong with you take this pill or that pill. Just take a pill and everything will be fine. And all those pill can be gotten legally from your doctor. So if you can get it from your doctor it is safe? This drug was prescribe to someone and all the commercials fill your head hour after hour that all you have to do is go to your doctor and then take a pill and all is fine. The kids see nothing wrong with taking drugs that doctors prescribe.
Wake-Up Call
There is a wake-up call for parents as well as young people in this story. Hope it will take hold.
It won't. Don't you know,
It won't. Don't you know, that stuff only happens to OTHER PEOPLE.
everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten
One of those is personal responsibility. Yes, it is indeed very sad and tragic - yes -- he should not have been selling the fentanyl patches. However, when one is willing to use Fentanyl patches and combine with alcohol, then it was quite possibly just a matter of time til a different tradgey would have occurred. Does not matter the substance -- people want to get high and will use anything they can find -- be it gasoline or an inhalant or whatever.
Evil is Evil
Evil is Evil,Dealing drugs is evil. Bashing the mother of a dead child is downright ssssscary! I guess a lot of posters on this forum have no fear of God.SSSSatan is alive and well!
1st off, the drugs weren't
1st off, the drugs weren't the roommate's. The roommate got them from someone else, who was, in fact, stealing them from someone it was prescribed for. 2nd, Butros is accused of supposedly making the phone call to set this up, after his drug-addict boss pressured him regularly. He won't see 10 years in jail because he doesn't deserve it. Accountability, yes. But as others have stated, where is the accountability of the boys. No one forced it on them. Where is the accountability for the parents who put their drug addict son in charge of others at their restaurant, instead of sending him to rehab where he belongs. Yes, I feeel awful for these parents and their loss. But let's hold everyone accountable here, not just one guy, because it's all the police department could come up with at the time. There will be more arrests up this chain in this case. I am speaking from first-hand knowledge. It's really sad that this mother has to attempt to ruin another young man's life because her son made the wrong choices. Ruining his life won't bring her son back. 10 years is the max sentence, by the way. No judge in their right mind would do that.
So sad...
Although I believe these guys should pay for dealing prescription drugs, to minors at that, mom needs to realize that her son is also responsible for seeking out the drugs in the first place. It's a sad story all around.
By the way....there are a lot of people on here that know exactly how much these patches should have cost.....
Minors?
They were both over the age of eighteen