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Manhattan DA Indicts Tabitha Bundrick in Alleged Fentanyl Drugging-Robbery Case Tied to 3 Deaths

Prosecutors cite recovered victim property, post-incident phone calls, credit card activity to link the case to the defendant.

Overview

  • A New York State Supreme Court indictment charges Bundrick, 36, with three counts of second-degree murder, four of first-degree robbery, and two of second-degree burglary; prosecutors also filed a second-degree assault charge.
  • Investigators allege a pattern from April 2023 to February 2024 in which men were given fentanyl-laced drugs and then robbed in Upper Manhattan locations.
  • The victims cited in the filing are Mario Paullan, 42, Miguel Navez, 39, and Abrihan Fernandez, 34, each found dead after separate encounters in Washington Heights and nearby.
  • Prosecutors describe tactics that included posing as selling soap or offering sex, breaking into apartments, rigging a building door for reentry, and removing bags of property.
  • Bundrick was arrested March 5 during a search of her apartment where four pairs of victims’ sneakers were recovered, and following Wednesday’s court proceedings she was ordered held without bail while remaining presumed innocent.