Manhattan Sex Worker Admits Fentanyl Robbery Plot Killed 3 Men

Manhattan woman pleads guilty in fentanyl-linked killings of three men

A Manhattan sex worker accused of fatally drugging three clients with fentanyl-laced narcotics so she could steal from them pleaded guilty Tuesday, prosecutors said.

Tabitha Bundrick, 39, admitted that between April 2023 and February 2024 she gave customers the powerful synthetic opioid before taking their belongings, including cell phones, sneakers, cash and watches, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

“The defendant knowingly killed three people by providing them fentanyl-laced drugs,” District Attorney Alvin Bragg said. “As they lay unconscious, she robbed her victims and left them to die. In several instances, the victims’ bodies were found by their friends or family members.”

Bragg said Bundrick displayed a “shocking indifference” to the lives of the men she targeted.

She is expected to receive a sentence of 27 years to life after pleading guilty to three counts of second-degree murder and one count of second-degree assault.

Prosecutors said the crime spree began on April 30, 2023, when Bundrick met 42-year-old Mario Paullan and his friend on the street, initially offering to sell them soap. She then proposed sex for money and brought them to an apartment she had broken into, authorities said.

After taking the fentanyl-laced drugs she gave them, Paullan’s friend woke up to find him dead the next morning and their belongings missing, authorities said.

Months later, she met Miguel Navez, 39, and gave him drugs at his apartment. He was found three days later by his brother, with his belongings also stolen.

The third incident occurred on Feb. 25, 2024, when Abrihan Fernandez, 34, died in his apartment. Bundrick was caught entering and exiting the Upper Manhattan apartment several times with large bags.

She is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 6.