After a year of pleading not guilty to 16 felony counts including sex crimes against multiple minors and providing them drugs, 24-year-old Michael Russell, originally from San Jose, agreed to a plea deal Tuesday.
Russell, who is currently in custody awaiting sentencing, is now pleading no contest to seven similar felony charges involving 16-year-old Lace Price from Santa Cruz and another minor girl. These are condensed versions of the original charges, according to the prosecutor on the case.
Under the plea deal, Russell will serve 10 years in prison, register as a sex offender and have two strikes on his criminal record.Get a weekly recap of the latest San Francisco Bay Area housing news.On Nov. 12, 2021, Price was found dead in Russell’s Corralitos, Calif. home with him there with fentanyl and other substances in her system. Earlier this year, Russell was charged with giving Price narcotics, such as hydrocodone, Xanax and Percocet.
A teenage girl died after taking fentanyl and other drugs and on Tuesday, her accused drug dealer took a plea deal that includes 10 years in prison. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen has the details. “It’s not easy for me to sit in court. It’s not easy to look at Michael Russell and think he spent more time with Lace at the end than I did,” Jill Price, Lace Price’s mother, said outside of court Tuesday. “I will never stop fighting for her or the truth.”
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