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Drug Dealer Named 'Jhonny Cash' Sold Fatal Heroin, DA Says

By Ben Fractenberg | October 20, 2016 6:29pm
 Dashawn “Jhonny Cash” Hawkins, 26, was charged with selling heroin, which led to the overdose death of Colin Cameron on Sept. 2.
Dashawn “Jhonny Cash” Hawkins, 26, was charged with selling heroin, which led to the overdose death of Colin Cameron on Sept. 2.
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MANHATTAN — An Upper East Side man was part of a ring that sold heroin to a 29-year-old man who later overdosed and died, officials said Thursday.

Dashawn “Jhonny Cash” Hawkins, 26, was indicted Wednesday on charges of selling heroin and fentanyl, leading to the death of Colin Cameron on Sept. 2, according to the NYPD and federal prosecutors.

“Far too often now, we are seeing the devastating effects of opioid abuse on our communities,” said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in a statement. “We must work to stop these dangerous drugs from reaching our streets and killing our citizens. Dashawn Hawkins allegedly dealt in heroin, including the fentanyl-laced heroin that killed Colin Cameron.”

Investigators searched Hawkins’s Upper East Side apartment on East 94th Street early Thursday morning and found 30 grams of heroin and a Mac-10 submachine gun loaded with hollow-point bullets, according to court records and a report in the Daily News.

Hawkins, who faces a life in prison, was scheduled to be arraigned in Manhattan federal court Thursday.

There was no immediate information on his lawyer.