GOSHEN – A Washingtonville man was sentenced on Monday in Orange County Court to two to six years in state prison on his guilty plea to manslaughter and three years in prison followed by two years of post-release supervision for criminal sale of drugs in connection with the man’s death.
The victim was found dead in New Windsor on July 17, 2022 and an autopsy revealed he had died from a fatal overdose of fentanyl.
Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler said Timothy Lempicki, 37, admitted that on July 16, 2022 in Washingtonville, he had sold the fentanyl to the man who later died. He also admitted that a the time he sold the drug, he knew and consciously disregarded, a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the drug might have a lethal effect on the man to whom he sold it.
The investigation into the circumstances under which the man died were investigated by Washingtonville and New Windsor Police, aided by the DA’s office and medical examiner’s office.
