New York sex worker Angelina Barini sentenced to 30 years for fatally drugging 4 males

The pattern was virtually an identical.

Between July and August 2019, sex worker Angelina Barini met with her purchasers at motels in New York Metropolis earlier than giving them harmful doses of medicine that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the lads and leave with their personal belongings.

Four of them, together with a outstanding Italian chef, died of overdoses from the drugs, court docket data state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing medicine that killed her shoppers, including fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for inflicting irrational habits, extreme sickness, coma and death.

Final week, a decide sentenced the 43-year-old Barini to 30 years in jail.

“The defendant drugged and killed multiple people for a couple of fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. legal professional for the Japanese District of New York, stated in a information launch. “She stole their private belongings whereas they lay unconscious dying from the lethal drugs she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini didn't respond to a message from The Washington Submit.

Barini met her first victim at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the man fentanyl-laced medication and left the room. Police found him dead hours later, courtroom information state.

A week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with one other man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, the place she gave him fentanyl-laced medication. The man additionally died of a drug overdose, a grievance states.

The next month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third victim in School Level, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced medicine that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors said.

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her last recognized victim, Andrea Zamperoni — a chef for the high-end restaurant chain Cipriani — inside an Elmhurst, Queens, motel room, the place she drugged him with gamma-butyrolactone, commonly referred to as a “date rape” drug. The man died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket records state, Barini repeatedly tried to eliminate the victim’s body. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s body in bleach-stained sheets and positioned it inside a trash bin, in accordance with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That same day, the New York City Police Department discovered the person’s physique within the motel room.

In line with court data, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. As soon as investigators made it into the room, they noticed a strong odor — that of a decomposing physique and burning incense, the complaint states.

Barini advised investigators that “she did not do it,” but also that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities discovered several items, together with a credit card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, courtroom records state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini mentioned Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for intercourse. When she awoke, Barini said, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril and mouth. Her pimp, she added, wouldn't let her name the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the overall manager of Cipriani in New York, instructed the New York Times that Zamperoni was a “devoted arduous worker” who cooked six days a week and “by no means missed a day of labor.”

The kitchen staff mourned the loss, Dallorso told the Instances.

“Everyone in the kitchen right now is heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso stated.