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James Leon Dailey, 51, of Banning was arrested final July following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the dying of Faith Alainz, additionally of Banning.
Dailey final week pleaded responsible to voluntary manslaughter beneath a plea settlement with the District Attorney’s Office. In trade for his admission, prosecutors dropped fees of second-degree homicide and youngster cruelty in opposition to him.
During a listening to on the Banning Justice Center Friday, Superior Court Judge Joshlyn Pulliam licensed the phrases of the plea deal and imposed the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and protection.
According to sheriff’s Sgt. Sean Liebrand, in early January 2023, Alainz was reported lacking by her household, culminating in an investigation that led to the Hathaway Creek space on the Morongo Band of Mission Indians’ reservation.
“Upon arrival, deputies situated a deceased feminine within the backseat of a car,” Liebrand mentioned.
He mentioned investigators shortly confirmed the sufferer was Alainz.
“The coroner’s bureau in the end decided that Alainz died because of fentanyl poisoning,” the sergeant mentioned.
Central Homicide Unit detectives started gathering proof, which pointed to Dailey because the provider of the drug. The felon was charged within the case 5 months later.
It was unclear how lengthy Dailey and the sufferer had been acquainted, or the character of their relationship.
According to courtroom information, the defendant had prior convictions for arson, home violence, false imprisonment, housebreaking and felony evading. He had served time in state jail.
Since February 2021, greater than two dozen folks countywide have been charged in reference to fentanyl poisonings.
In November, the District Attorney’s Office closed the books on its first fentanyl homicide case to go earlier than a jury, culminating within the conviction of 34-year-old Vicente David Romero, who was sentenced to fifteen years to life in jail for the 2020 dying of a Temecula girl.
According to Department of Public Health knowledge, there have been 388 confirmed fentanyl-related fatalities countywide in 2023, a 23% decline from 2022, when there have been 503.
Fentanyl is manufactured in abroad labs, principally in China, in line with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which says the artificial opioid is smuggled throughout the U.S.-Mexico border by cartels.
The drug is 80-100 instances stronger than morphine and might be blended into any variety of avenue narcotics and prescribed drugs, with no person figuring out what she or he is consuming. Ingestion of solely two milligrams might be deadly.
