A 29-year-old Marina man was handed a prison term after confessing to supplying fentanyl to a woman who died of drug overdose in 2023, according to Monterey County prosecutors.
Matthew James Hurley pleaded guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and furnishing fentanyl to the overdose victim. He was sentenced to more than a year of incarceration and to felony probation, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Thursday.
On the early evening of March 24, 2023, officers were alerted to a call regarding an unconscious woman, later identified as Melody Brazil. Officers gave her life-saving measures, including administering several doses of Narcan, a commonly used medication to reverse fentanyl overdoses…