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Offender pleads guilty to drug trafficking as manslaughter sentencing continued
Jul. 9—WILKES-BARRE — A Lake Township person who pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter for the fentanyl overdose death of a man in 2021 pled guilty to a felony drug trafficking offense Wednesday.
William John Milligan, 30, who identifies as a woman and uses the name "Selena Leyc," pled guilty to possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance before Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas. Prosecutors withdrew four other drug offenses and a criminal trespass charge against Milligan.
Milligan was arrested by Wilkes-Barre police who investigated a trespassing complaint at a residence in the 400 block of South River Street on March 4, a week after he pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
In the manslaughter case, the Pennsylvania State Police at Wilkes-Barre charged Milligan with delivering fentanyl that caused the overdose death of her boyfriend, Kodiak Solomon, inside their Loyalville Outlet Road residence on Dec. 24, 2021. An autopsy revealed Solomon died from fentanyl toxicity, according to court records.
Wilkes-Barre police in court records say when Milligan was detained for trespassing, he was carrying four duffel bags that contained a bag of ecstasy pills, two bags containing fentanyl, a pill bottle in the name of another person, a glass pipe, syringes and a spoon.
Milligan remains jailed and is scheduled to be sentenced on the separate cases Aug. 27.
