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Linda Naulty of Mount Holly was charged Monday with first-degree strict liability for drug-induced death, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina and Lumberton Township Police Chief Nicholas Peditto.
The charges stem from a Lumberton man's deadly overdose on fentanyl earlier this year, they said.
Naulty was served with the charges at the Atlantic County Justice Facility in Mays Landing.
She was being held at the facility in February after being charged with multiple counts of possessing and planning to sell illegal dugs in connection with the same case, the prosecutor said.
Lumberton police and emergency medical technicians responded to the 500 block of Main Street on Feb. 8 on a report of an unconscious adult male, Coffina and Peditto said on Friday.
They reportedly found the body of Paul Cronrath IV, 29, who had fatally overdosed in his bedroom, they said.
Within a few hours, investigators allegedly identified Naulty as the source of the drugs. When taken into custody, she had multiple doses of fentanyl and nearly $1,400 in cash, Coffina and Peditto said.
The charges were upgraded after the results of toxicology tests confirmed that the drugs found in Cronrath’s bedroom were identical to the ones found on Naulty’s person at the time of her arrest, the prosecutor said.
The investigation was conducted by detectives from the Lumberton Township Police Department and the BCPO Gang, Gun & Narcotics Task Force. The lead investigator was LTPD Detective Aaron Roselli.
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