MIAMI – A 20-year-old jail inmate facing drug and weapons charges appeared in court on Monday accused of a woman’s murder in Miami-Dade County.
Homicide detectives reported communication records and a witness showed Domenic Pedre delivered and sold the narcotics that caused the woman to overdose twice.
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The woman didn’t survive her second overdose. She was treated for the first overdose and returned home on Aug. 15 in the Tamiami neighborhood. Her father reported finding her foaming from the mouth on Aug. 16.
The grieving father told police that he administered nasal NARCAN and started CPR before Miami-Dade fire rescue personnel rushed his daughter to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital.
In her bedroom, police officers reported finding 14 bars of Xanax and a folded dollar bill with a residual powder that later tested positive for fentanyl.
After she died Aug. 16 at the hospital, the medical examiner reported the cause was acute combined drug toxicity involving Xanax, fentanyl, and Bromazolam.
Miami police officers with the gang intelligence unit arrested Pedre at 7:30 a.m., Oct. 30, after responding to his home on the corner of Northwest 43 Avenue and Fourth Street in the Flagami neighborhood.
According to the police arrest report, Pedre asked officers to use the restroom and “took off on foot while handcuffed.” He was arrested “after a short foot chase.”
Police officers reported finding about $105,560 in cash, and weapons that included a Glock 27 Gen. 5, two Smith & Wesson rifles, and a machine gun conversion device.
The list of drugs included over 125 grams of cocaine, bottles of promethazine with codeine, psilocybin mushrooms, Xanax, Oxycodone, MDMA, marijuana, and THC vape cartridges.
Miami-Dade County inmate records Monday show Pedre was at the Metrowest Detention Center with two pending cases and three warrant cases. A judge denied him bond.
Miami-Dade court records show Pedre is facing nine charges in the two pending cases for murder and drug trafficking.
For the woman’s death in Miami-Dade, prosecutors filed a case on Jan. 11 with two charges: First-degree murder with a controlled substance and sale of a controlled substance.
For the drug trafficking case in Miami, prosecutors filed a case on Oct. 31 with seven charges: Cocaine trafficking while armed, fentanyl trafficking, possession of a controlled substance while armed, importation of arms and ammunition, possession of weapons by a felon, escape, and resisting an officer without violence.