{"id":1053022,"date":"2026-09-09T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1053022\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:15:39","slug":"sex-worker-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-three-johns-with-fentanyl-in-new-york-city-robbery-spree-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1053022\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex worker pleads guilty to murdering three johns with fentanyl in New York City robbery spree \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sex worker pleaded guilty to murdering three men with fatal doses of fentanyl<\/a> after luring them with sex and drugs during a 10-month robbery spree in Manhattan, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Tabitha Bundrick, 39, is expected to be sentenced to 27 years to life in state prison next month after admitting to doling out the deadly drugs to unwitting victims Abrihan Fernandez, Mario Paullan and Miguel Navez.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also accused of dosing Paullan\u2019s ex-brother-in-law, who woke up from the narcotics-induced stupor to find Paullan dead beside him, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.<\/p>\n

Cops arrested Bundrick last September and charged her with multiple counts of murder, as well as assault.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendant knowingly killed three people by providing them fentanyl-laced drugs\u201d, said Bragg. \u201cAs they lay unconscious, she robbed her victims and left them to die.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MarioMario Paullan\u00a0<\/p>\n

In several instances, the victims\u2019 bodies were found by friends or family members, Bragg said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendant showed a shocking indifference to the lives of her victims and is now facing significant consequences for her conduct,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

After offering up the fatal dose of fentanyl \u2013 telling at least some of her victims that the drugs were cocaine \u2013 Bundrick waited until her victims fell unconscious before robbing them of their phones, money, jewelry, clothes and sneakers, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

She met her victims through sex work, her attorneys said.<\/p>\n

Bundrick\u2019s deadly spree kicked off on April 30, 2023, when she approached Paullan, 42, and his ex-brother-in-law on the street outside a Washington Heights laundromat. She first offered to sell them detergent, only to later offer up her body in exchange for cash, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

She led the pair to an empty apartment she had broken into, where she had sex with both men and gave them fentanyl, claiming it was cocaine, officials said.<\/p>\n

Paullan recorded a video recovered by feds on his cellphone that \u201ccaptured the voice of (Bundrick) as she continually pushed Paullan to take more of the purported cocaine, even as Paullan told the defendant that he did not want any more,\u201d according to court papers.<\/p>\n

When the ex-brother-in-law woke up the next morning, he found Paullan, 42, dead beside him and couldn\u2019t remember the night before.<\/p>\n

\"MiguelMiguel Navez, 39, died on Sept. 27, 2023. (GoFundMe)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bundrick had already made off with the ex-brother-in-law\u2019s cash and cellphone, which she began using to contact her family and friends just two hours after dosing her victims, court papers say. The surviving victim went to the hospital later that day after he began vomiting uncontrollably and needed medical attention.<\/p>\n

Bundrick continued to use the cellphone belonging to Paullan\u2019s ex-brother-in-law for a month, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

About five months later, on Sept. 27, 2023, Bundrick met Navez, 39, who brought her to his apartment on W. 158th St. in Washington Heights to have sex.<\/p>\n

She administered the fatal dose of fentanyl and stole Navez\u2019s electronics, prosecutors said. Later that day, Bundrick\u2019s roommate used Navez\u2019s stolen tablet to call 911 after the suspect experienced an asthma attack, court papers show.<\/p>\n

Three days later, Navez\u2019s worried brother came to check on him and found him dead in his bed. That same day, Bundrick used Navez\u2019s cellphone to call her drug dealer and her mother, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n

Bundrick met Fernandez, 34, after chatting him up on the street around 4 a.m. on Feb. 25, 2024. She then followed him back to his apartment on W. 144th St, where she gave him fentanyl, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Bundrick was later seen propping the door to Fernandez\u2019s building open so she could grab some food without getting locked out, prosecutors say. She later called a call service and removed several bags from the victim\u2019s apartment, including the backpack he was wearing when he met her.<\/p>\n

Her son helped her bring the bags into her apartment and was seen removing a pair of Fernandez\u2019s sneakers from a bag. Her son was captured on video using Fernandez\u2019s credit card the next day.<\/p>\n

When cops executed a search warrant of Bundrick\u2019s home, they found four pairs of sneakers belonging to her victims inside her home, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Bundrick first appeared on the Manhattan DA\u2019s radar in March 2024 when she was arrested for burglary and grand larceny after allegedly being caught with Fernandez\u2019s property, officials said.<\/p>\n

The guilty plea comes about a year after Bundrick pleaded guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to two counts of narcotics distribution in connection with the men\u2019s deaths as part of a plea agreement. The feds had initially accused her of drug distribution resulting in death.<\/p>\n

She was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison, which was to run concurrently with any potential sentence she would receive in the state\u2019s case against her.<\/p>\n

The feds, who described her as \u201can extraordinarily dangerous individual,\u201d had requested 30 years.<\/p>\n

At the time, Bundrick\u2019s lawyer in her federal case, Kristoff Williams, told the court that drug addiction issues and the need to numb herself \u201cto get through the experience of prostituting her body\u201d were behind the deaths.<\/p>\n

Bundrick \u201cundoubtedly made a poor decision when she shared her drugs with men who were just \u2018looking for a good time,\u2019 \u201d but that she never intended to kill anyone, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sex worker pleaded guilty to murdering three men with fatal doses of fentanyl after luring them with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1053023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7910,2451,3059,4219,5295,1230,24094,4221,1370,140096,108,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,6280,290,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1053022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-area","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-drugs","tag-fentanyl","tag-homicide","tag-latest-headlines","tag-morning-wire","tag-national-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-region","tag-state","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117241271157718713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1053023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}