Accused Vegas drug smuggler busted for sending fentanyl-laced letters to prisons



An alleged drug smuggler who sent letters on fentanyl-laced paper to prisons across Nevada and California — leading to at least one death — was busted by Las Vegas cops.

Hoza Del Collins, 30, allegedly advertised his mail-order dope business on social media, according to a police report obtained by CBS 8.

He was also caught on surveillance video sending the illicit letters through the mail, the report said.

Collins had allegedly been running his scheme from as far back as last September, and at least one inmate died from the fentanyl he supplied — landing Collins with a second-degree murder charge.

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Michael Trapper, the dead inmate from Ely State Prison in Nevada, allegedly snorted white powder he had scraped from legal documents he received in the mail.

Prison officials tracked 278 phone calls between inmates at six different facilities, which authorities say demonstrated “the scope and consistency of this conspiracy,” according to the aforementioned report.

In a phone call, Trapper allegedly promised to make Collins rich by helping expand his network of buyers within the prison, CBS 8 added.

Investigators claimed to have tracked social media posts dating back to last September in which Collins told inmates’ loved ones he could get them drug-laced sheets of paper.

Inmates communicated with Collins via code words including “magazines,” “subscriptions,” “ink cartridges,” “Alfredo sauce,” and “white girls,” according to the report. 

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