Middlesex County drug dealer sentenced to prison for 21-year-old's fentanyl death

A 26-year-old South Amboy man was sentenced to a decade in prison for causing the drug-induced death of a woman on Halloween 2022, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée Robeson said.

Leonard Contreras pled guilty on Oct. 18 to the charge of first-degree strict liability drug-induced death and was sentenced on Dec. 10.

An investigation found that on Oct. 31, 2022, Contreras sold cocaine to 21-year-old Cayla Dunham, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, and her boyfriend. Lab analysis found that the drug taken by Dunham was predominantly fentanyl, Robeson said.

Dunham died from an overdose in Raritan Township later that night.

Contreras will have to serve eight years and six months of his sentence before being eligible for parole, as well as a five-year term of parole supervision after release.

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