Man gets 6 years in state prison in fatal overdose death
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey man has been sentenced to six years in state prison for selling heroin...
View ArticleMan gets 6 years for selling drug that led to woman's death
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey man was sentenced to six years in state prison for selling heroin that led to the...
View ArticleMan gets 13 years for selling heroin that led to OD deaths
Angel Hernandez, 39, of Elmwood Park was convicted of two counts of strict liability for drug-induced deaths. PATERSON - A drug dealer from Bergen...
View ArticleCloster man sentenced for selling heroin that led to Emerson woman's overdose
After a county prosecutor declared that his case should be a “cautionary tale” to any would-be drug dealer, a judge on Wednesday sentenced a Closter man to six years in state prison for selling the...
View ArticleCloster man sentenced for selling heroin that led to Emerson woman's overdose...
After a county prosecutor declared that his case should be a “cautionary tale” to any would-be drug dealer, a judge on Wednesday sentenced a Closter man to six years in state prison for selling the...
View ArticleOhio man pleads guilty to selling opioids that led to 26 overdoses in a day
In a West Virginia case that highlights a growing nationwide epidemic, an Ohio drug dealer has pleaded guilty to selling opioid-laced heroin that was responsible for at least 26 overdoses in a single...
View ArticleBristol Man Gets One Year For Providing Heroin That Led To Overdose Death
A Bristol man was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday for selling heroin that the prosecution said led to the overdose death of a 31-year-old man in August 2016. Keith Atwater, 36, was...
View ArticleWoman accepts plea bargain in roommate's death
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - A Bayonne woman accused of strangling her roommate last year pleaded guilty Thursday to a...
View ArticleHeroin dealer admits causing drug-induced death
Passaic County prosecutors say a drug dealer has admitted selling heroin that led to a man's death. The Record...
View ArticleNew Jersey drug dealer pleads guilty after client overdoses on his heroin
A New Jersey drug dealer faces eight years in prison for selling heroin to a Lacey Township man who overdosed on the drug in January....
View ArticleTwo Wooster men sentenced for selling heroin that led to woman's death
CLEVELAND — Two Wooster men were sentenced to multi-year terms in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution of heroin that contributed to the overdose death of a Wayne County woman. Jamie...
View Article3 indicted on charges they sold drugs that led to overdose deaths
The three overdose victims died in 2016. WOODBURY -- Three men have been indicted on charges that they sold drugs that led to overdose deaths in Gloucester County. The cases against the three men are...
View ArticleDwight man gets 8 years for selling heroin to woman who overdosed
A Dwight man was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for selling heroin to a 19-year-old woman who died from an overdose in southwest suburban Wilmington. Joseph P. Alksnis, 26,...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty in Burlco overdose death
A 37-year-old Sicklerville man has admitted responsibility for the 2015 overdose death of a man who...
View ArticleMan gets 8 years in state prison in fatal overdose death
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A man who admitted selling the drugs that led to another man's overdose...
View ArticleWoman gets over 2 years for selling drug in overdose death
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to over two years in prison after pleading guilty to...
View ArticleElizabeth man pleads guilty to strict liability in drug induced death
The Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office announced that Richard Deo, 37, of Elizabeth, has plead guilty to first-degree strict liability for a drug induced death. The...
View ArticleJudge sentences 4 for selling heroin that led to Longmont death
All four admitted guilt A federal judge in Denver has handed down sentences of up to 10 years in prison to three people who pleaded guilty to distributing heroin connected to a 2013 fatal...
View ArticleJudge sentences 4 for selling heroin that led to Longmonth death
All four admitted guilt A federal judge in Denver has handed down sentences of up to 10 years in prison to three people who pleaded guilty to distributing heroin connected to a 2013 fatal...
View ArticleManslaughter and drug-death charges tossed in heroin overdose case
A judge ruled that heroin found in the victim's bedroom appeared to have come from a source unrelated to the defendant HACKENSACK -- Charges of manslaughter and strict liability in a drug-induced death...
View ArticleWoman Charged Under 'Death by Delivery' Law With Selling Heroin That Led to...
A 21-year-old woman in the small town of Hawley, Pennsylvania is facing life in prison for selling heroin to a person who then died of an overdose. Brittany Ann Banscher is being charged under a new...
View ArticleN.J. man accused of selling heroin that led to death
Christopher T. Brown, 38, of Irvington, was charged Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, with first-degree strict liability for drug induced death. He allegedly sold heroin to a man in Raritan Township who later...
View ArticlePoison peddler gets 12-year prison term for veteran's overdose death
A judge on Thursday held Sung Han's drug dealer liable for his death; the top prosecutor handled the sentencing Sung Han died alone in his Burlington Township bedroom. The 35-year-old South Korean...
View ArticleUniontown Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Drugs That Led To Overdose Death
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A Uniontown man pleaded guilty Thursday to selling drugs to a man...
View ArticleMan gets 18 years for selling heroin that let to overdose death
The victim traveled to Camden to purchase heroin and later died of an overdose. WOODBURY -- A Camden drug dealer was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday for selling heroin to a Gloucester County man...
View ArticleThree face charges in Emerson woman's fatal drug overdose
Criminal charges have been filed against three men police say are connected to the fatal drug overdose of a 47-year-old female in her apartment Tuesday. Christopher Benvenuto, 26, of , Jessie Kurzweel,...
View ArticleDrug dealer gets 9 years in man's heroin death
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — The Will County state's attorney says a drug dealer has been sentenced to nine years in prison...
View ArticleMan charged with selling drugs that led to fatal overdose of Mantua man
He allegedly sold heroin laced with the painkiller fentanyl to a Mantua resident. WOODBURY -- Authorities have charged a Camden man with selling heroin laced with a powerful painkiller to...
View ArticleFormer Melrose Park man gets 18 years for supplying heroin that led to death...
An admitted drug addict who supplied the heroin that caused a Naperville man’s overdose death was sentenced Tuesday to 18 years in prison. Kevin Liszka, 34, formerly of Melrose Park, listened stoically...
View ArticleMan gets prison for selling drugs that led to fatal overdose
WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for selling the heroin that led to a 26-year-old's fatal overdose....
View ArticleBergen County prosecutors increase pressure in war on heroin with death charges
In a clear escalation of the war on the heroin trade and the growing epidemic of overdoses, authorities on Wednesday charged two men with causing the “drug-induced death” of an woman by supplying her...
View ArticleProsecutor: 2 indicted in woman's fatal overdose
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — Two men have been indicted on numerous charges for allegedly causing a northern New Jersey woman's drug-related death last...
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