Tabitha Bundrick was sentenced to 27 years to life after pleading guilty in three Manhattan fentanyl killings.

A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts that were admitted. It is not a new charge. The New York Post and the Daily Mail reported the state term as 27 years to life, running at the same time as a 13-year federal sentence. The Daily Mail split the state term into three concurrent 25-years-to-life murder sentences and a consecutive two years on the assault count. CBS New York had reported that morning that 27 years to life was the expected term.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said on Sept. 8, 2026, that Tabitha Bundrick, 39, pleaded guilty in New York State Supreme Court to three counts of second-degree murder and one count of second-degree assault. The office said she was expected to be sentenced to 27 years to life on Oct. 6. As the office described the plea, between April 2023 and February 2024 she purposely gave men fentanyl-laced drugs and, while they were unconscious, took phones, money, watches, clothes, and sneakers. Bragg said, "The defendant knowingly killed three people by providing them fentanyl-laced drugs," and, "As they laid unconscious, she robbed her victims and left them to die." A guilty plea admits those counts. The Sept. 8 announcement was the plea, not the sentence.

The office laid out three deaths. It said that on April 30, 2023, in Washington Heights, Bundrick approached two men on the street while claiming to sell soap, offered sex for money, and took them to an empty apartment on West 159th Street that she had broken into. It said she then offered both men fentanyl-laced drugs she called cocaine, and that the next morning one man woke to find 42-year-old Mario Paullan dead beside him, with belongings including a cellphone missing. It said that on Sept. 27, 2023, she went to 39-year-old Miguel Navez's apartment on West 158th Street, gave him fentanyl-laced drugs, and that his brother found him dead on Sept. 30, with his phone missing. It said that on Feb. 25, 2024, she followed 34-year-old Abrihan Fernandez toward his building on West 144th Street, gave him fentanyl-laced drugs, and later left with bags that included his backpack, and that his credit card was used in the days after. The office said she was arrested March 5 during a search of her apartment that recovered four pairs of the victims' sneakers. Those are the facts the District Attorney's Office said were admitted in the plea.

The New York Post and the Daily Mail reported that the sentence was imposed Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, in a Lower Manhattan courtroom. Both reported the term as 27 years to life. The Daily Mail reported that the judge imposed three concurrent sentences of 25 years to life on the murder counts and a consecutive two years, with three years of probation, on the assault count, and that the judge suspended execution of the sentence for 30 days. The New York Post reported that the state sentence will run at the same time as a 13-year federal sentence after a guilty plea to narcotics distribution. CBS New York reported Tuesday morning, before the hearing, that she was already serving 13 years on federal charges connected to the case and that the state hearing was set for 9 a.m. The New York Post, in its September plea story, identified the judge as Kathryn Paek. Its Tuesday story spelled the name Kathryn Paak. The Daily Mail spelled it Kyu Paek. The last name is not the same across those accounts. The term they describe is. The Daily Mail reported Bundrick told the court she was sorry and that a drug addiction had caused her to make bad decisions. The New York Post reported Bragg said Tuesday, "Tabitha Bundrick's absolutely callous conduct has left three devastated families," and, "I hope this prison sentence will allow for some measure of healing." A sentence after a plea is the judgment on the admitted counts. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.