A drug dealer was arrested Wednesday at a Tucson hotel by narcotics officers investigating the fatal overdose of a 31-year-old woman earlier in the day.
Oscar Sun Acuna is being held by the U.S. Marshal Service on federal charges of possession with the intent to distribute heroin. He is scheduled for a May 19 pretrial detention hearing at the U.S. District Court in Tucson.
The criminal complaint filed Thursday by a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations notes that the Tucson Police Department responded to an overdose call at a residence on May 13. TPD’s Counter Narcotics Alliance was called in when the woman later died at a local hospital.
The Counter Narcotics Alliance is a multi-jurisdictional drug task force operating in Pima County and the Greater Tucson area. Investigators interviewed the woman’s boyfriend who said he purchased pills and heroin from Acuna the day before at a Tucson hotel.
According to the complaint, a search warrant executed at a hotel room rented in Acuna’s name led to the seizure of 41 grams of heroin and packaging materials, a loaded .40 caliber handgun with 117 rounds of ammunition, and more than 70 pills suspected of containing fentanyl.
Acuna purportedly waived his Miranda rights and admitted to investigators that he sold two fentanyl pills and some heroin to the boyfriend on May 12. He also said the girlfriend was present at the sale.
The boyfriend is not named in Acuna’s court documents. Arizona Daily Independent is withholding the name of the deceased woman.