SANTA ANA — A 36-year-old man was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in federal prison for dealing a fatal dose of fentanyl to a 30-year-old woman in Anaheim.

U.S. District Judge James Selna sentenced Jesus Angel Reyna to 189 months behind bars and ordered him to pay $6,948.24 in restitution for funeral expenses to the victim’s parents.

Reyna met with the victim near her home in Anaheim on Oct. 28, 2022, and sold her several pills laced with fentanyl, federal prosecutors said in a sentencing brief. The woman took the pills two days later and died, prosecutors said.

Reyna had dealt drugs to the woman on prior occasions, prosecutors said.

Reyna was arrested Feb. 21, 2023, while dealing drugs in a parking lot of his apartment in Anaheim, prosecutors said. A search of his apartment netted 680 grams of methamphetamine, 457 grams of cocaine, 7.30 grams of MDMA and 23 grams of Xanax, prosecutors said.

He pleaded guilty Sept. 2 to possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute it and possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute it.

The Register staff contributed to this story.

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