Second Degree Murder. Hard Hitting Police Report Leads To Warrant, Arrest.
DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2024 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — If you ever hear that Delray Beach Police Detectives John Caceres Duque and Kyle Kinney are after you, you might as well just turn yourself in. The Delray Dynamic Duo just arrested a Broward County man who they say provided a fatal batch of fentanyl-laced drugs to a Delray Beach man who died in the back of a Lyft. Thomas Collura was found dead on August 10th, 2024 around 8 p.m. in the area of 240 SE 10th Street in Delray.
In one of the most articulate, descriptive, and apparently fact-based warrant requests BocaNewsNow.com has ever read, the Delray Beach detectives outline their investigation. They describe how they traced Collura’s Lyft ride from his home to an address in Deerfield Beach where David Nuttall allegedly gave him drugs. They describe text messages allegedly from Nuttall warning of the potency of the drugs. And they describe how Collura needed a bathroom — as he suddenly felt sick — after allegedly receiving the laced drugs from Nuttall and returning home in the same Lyft took him for the drug purchase.
The detectives then describe how they Collura’s body was found in the back of the vehicle — his face purple and surrounded by vomit. How the text messages on his phone and the Lyf receipt allegedly linked Collura to Nuttall — who had been arrested previously for DUI. And how Nuttall apparently provided Collura his first and last name so that Collura could pay him by Zelle. Nuttall allegedly supplied Collura with drugs multiple times — creating a traceable Zelle transaction each time.
David Nuttall, 46, of 1945 NE 34d Street in Deerfield Beach is now being held in the Palm Beach County Jail without bond. The official charge; Homicide — murder dangerous and/or depraved without premeditation. He was booked into jail around 8 p.m. Thursday night. Thomas Collura apparently moved to Florida from New York for drug treatment. His official cause of death: “fentanyl and ethanol toxicity.”
