Federal prosecutors in California have charged a U.S. Navy sailor from the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with distributing the dangerous synthetic opiate fentanyl, resulting in the death of a shipmate while off-duty. Charging documents assert that he also distributed drugs to other sailors aboard the carrier, including while on deployment, causing at least one additional overdose.
In charges filed Tuesday in a court in Southern California, federal prosecutors alleged that Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Bailey Szramowski conspired with another Lincoln crewmember, identified only as A.N., to distribute pills of the painkiller Percocet laced with fentanyl to sailors aboard the carrier.
A.N. died of a fentanyl overdose while on shore leave on January 3, 2023. Police responders found him in an RV parked outside his aunt and uncle’s house in San Leandro, California. In a search, the police found a rolled-up dollar bill containing a white powder, a sign of drug use…