MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- A Long Island man has admitted he sold heroin to a woman who overdosed moments after he injected her with it in a doughnut shop.
Prosecutors say Joseph Sorrentino pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance in Nassau County Court and will be sentenced Dec. 4. He faces 3 1/2 years in prison.
District Attorney Kathleen Rice says Sorrentino sold the woman $20 worth of heroin and agreed to inject it for her in the bathroom of a Hicksville doughnut shop.
The woman became ill, stumbled out of the shop and collapsed. Sorrentino fled.
A passing police sergeant found the woman, who was taken to a hospital and later recovered.
Prosecutors contend heroin use in the county is on the rise. In June, a high school senior died of a heroin overdose at a party in Seaford.
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