The fiance of a woman who played a blue “drug fairy” in an infamous amateur rap video — and who died while pregnant of an overdose last year — was busted in a take-down of Staten Island heroin dealers.
Frank DeGaetano, 28, was busted along with a drug-dealing crew that allegedly sold heroin and the synthetic opioid fentanyl throughout the borough and even on school grounds, according to the Staten Island District Attorney’s office said Tuesday.
The investigation followed the death of DeGaetano’s fiance Sharissa Turk, who was pregnant when she overdosed at 25 in March of 2016 on an undisclosed opioid.
“This take down puts a crimp in the pipeline of heroin and fentanyl being funneled into Staten Island,” District Attorney Michael E. McMahon said in a statement.
Turk Kolaybet made headlines when she wore blue fairy wings and blew crushed powder into the camera while dancing in a video for the song “My World Is So Blue” by the Staten Island rap group White Trash Clan.
She was busted in 2013 for selling oxycodone and was discovered dead in her home last year.
The Staten Island Overdose Response Initiative follows overdose deaths and attempts to infiltrate the seedy networks of dealers who surround them.
Also arrested in the recent bust was Amanda Dimarinis, who allegedly sold fentanyl at I.S. 49 in Stapleton during her lunchbreak.
“We will continue to investigate every tragic overdose and hold dealers accountable for the lives and families they have destroyed,” McMahon said.
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