Sept. 25 (UPI) — A 38-year-old New York woman is facing multiple counts of murder and robbery on allegations that she used fentanyl-laced drugs to rob four men, killing three of them.
The suspect, Tabitha Bundrick, was charged with three counts of second-degree murder, four counts of first-degree robbery, two counts of second-degree burglary and two counts of second-degree assault on Wednesday, the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. said in a statement.
According to the indictment, Bundrick is accused of drugging her victims on three separate occasions in order to rob them between April 2023 and February 2024.
“This callous behavior allegedly led to the deaths of three people,” Bragg said.
“As alleged, each incident was calculated: Tabitha Bundrick knowingly provided fentanyl-laced drugs to incapacitate her victims so she could steal their personal belongings.”
The prosecutors allege the first instance was on April 30, 2023, in Washington Heights. Bundrick is accused of approaching two men to whom she offered to have sex with in exchange for money.
At an empty apartment she had broken into, she gave the men drugs she claimed were cocaine.
The next morning one of her victims, Mario Paullan, 42, woke up beside his best friend, both of whom had been robbed.
The second incident occurred on Sept. 27, 2023, when prosecutors allege she went back to the apartment of 39-year-old Miguel Navez. Three days later Navez’s brother found him dead with many of his belongings missing.
While the first two incidents occurred in Washington Heights, the third on Feb. 25, 2024, was in Upper Manhattan. Prosecutors said Bundrick and 34-year-old Abrihan Fernandez entered his apartment where she allegedly supplied him fentanyl-laced drugs.
Hours after entering the apartment, Bundrick allegedly rigged the building’s front door permitting her to enter and exit without issue, which she is accused of doing several times.
The district attorney’s office said she took multiple large bags from the apartment.
Prosecutors said she used Fernandez’s credit card several times and also used the cellphones of the other men she is accused of robbing.
Bundrick was arrested on March 5 when police execution of a search warrant at her apartment, recovering four pairs of the victims’ shoes.
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