By Joshua Tehee, The Fresno Bee (TNS)
A former clerk with the IRS in Fresno, CA, was sentenced to just over a year for selling prescription pills that led to the death of a co-worker.
Margarita Aispuro-Camacho pleaded guilty in February to charges that she sold morphine to a co-worker who was found dead of an overdose in an apartment in Clovis in May 2020.
The 46-year-old was sentenced to 14 months in prison, according to a release from the Department of Justice on Monday.
Following the death of the co-worker, law enforcement found text messages between the two, which showed Aispuro-Camacho had sold various prescription drugs, including morphine, on several occasions, including on the day before the overdose.
A toxicology report confirmed morphine as one of several drugs that caused the death, according to the Justice Department.
Aispuro-Camacho ultimately confessed when confronted by law enforcement, saying that she was prescribed the morphine and sold it to make a few thousand dollars in extra spending money, the DOJ said.
She was fired from the IRS shortly after the co-worker’s death, for reasons not related to the case.
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