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Shemar Jackson was sentenced Friday, Dec. 2 on the charge of strict liability drug induced death, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer.
On Dec. 5, 2019, Officers from the Toms River Township Police Department responded to a residence for a report of a 24 year-old unresponsive man. Police found the man was already dead from an apparent drug overdose, Billhimer said.
A subsequent investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force, and Toms River Township Police Department, revealed that Jackson was the supplier of heroin and fentanyl that was sold to the victim the day before his death, the prosecutor said.
Laboratory analysis confirmed the presence of heroin and fentanyl in the victim’s system, which caused the victim’s death, he said.
On Jan. 23, 2020, Jackson was arrested at his residence in Galloway Township by Officers of the Galloway Township Police Department and Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office.
Jackson was initially held in the Ocean County Jail, but subsequently released due to New Jersey Bail Reform.
He has been serving a sentence on an unrelated offense in New Jersey State Prison since November 2021.
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