(KRON) — A San Mateo man who’s accused of second-degree homicide after allegedly offering his girlfriend with the fentanyl that killed her pleaded not responsible in courtroom Thursday, in accordance with the San Mateo County District Legal professional’s Workplace.
Prosecutors mentioned Pedro Armando Arellano was a daily fentanyl person alongside along with his 26-year-old girlfriend Adrienne Dahbour. On Jan. 4, lower than two weeks earlier than his twenty seventh birthday, Arellano allegedly gave Dahbour fentanyl, which they then used collectively. Dahbour later went house, the place she lived in a indifferent unit on her mother and father’ property in San Mateo.
The next morning, Dahbour was present in mattress by her mom, lifeless from a fentanyl overdose, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
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In response to prosecutors, the couple had a historical past of fentanyl overdoses. Arellano had allegedly overdosed on fentanyl three or 4 occasions, and Dahbour had beforehand overdosed twice. Narcan was administered in earlier overdoses, saving her life, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
On the time of one of many defendant’s overdoses, San Mateo Police Division officers warned him that he could be charged with homicide if he equipped fentanyl to somebody who died from it, the DA’s workplace mentioned.
In Redwood Metropolis Felony Court docket on Thursday, Arellano pleaded not responsible to second-degree homicide and waived his proper to a speedy jury trial.
Arellano stays in custody with out bail. A preliminary listening to was set for April 28.
