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Mom Charged For 5-Year-Old's Fentanyl Overdose Death: PA AG Mom Charged For 5-Year-Old's Fentanyl Overdose Death: PA AG
Mom Charged For 5-Year-Old's Fentanyl Overdose Death: PA AG Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry has charged a mom for the overdose death of her daughter, according to a release on Tuesday.  Volaura 'Val' Askew "allegedly exposed her 5-year-old daughter to fentanyl/heroin in the hours and days before the child was found dead in her Johnstown home on October 27, 2022," the Attorney General explained.  Albert Spicer and Elyse Young, of Johnstown, who have also been charged with drug-dealing offenses in this case, were hosting Askew at a drug stash house owned by Young following Spicer's release from prison from a separate offense, ac…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Accused Chesco Drug Dealer Charged With Overdose Death: Police Accused Chesco Drug Dealer Charged With Overdose Death: Police
Accused Chesco Drug Dealer Charged With Overdose Death: Police A suspected drug dealer in Chester County faces felony charges related to an overdose death, officials say.  Nathan T. Hurd, 31, of Downingtown, was arrested Saturday, Dec. 17 in Montgomery County, police said in a statement.  Authorities believe Hurd sold drugs to a 33-year-old Westtown resident who overdosed and died in August. Investigators did not name the victim or the drug in question.  Hurd is now charged with drug delivery resulting in death and other related felonies, Westtown-East Goshen police said. He remains in the Chester County lockup in lieu of $500,000 …

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by Mac Bullock
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Dealer Who Sold Jersey Shore Woman Fatal Dose Of Heroin Gets 15 Years Without Parole In Fed Pen Dealer Who Sold Jersey Shore Woman Fatal Dose Of Heroin Gets 15 Years Without Parole In Fed Pen
Dealer Who Sold Jersey Shore Woman Fatal Dose Of Heroin Gets 15 Years Without Parole In Fed Pen A drug dealer who substituted fentanyl for heroin, killing a Jersey Shore woman, must spend more than 15 years in federal prison. Quasaan Bethea, 35, of Trenton, will have to serve out just about all of his plea-bargained 188-month sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. The 39-year-old Englishtown victim bought the fatal dose – in a package stabbed “CAMEL” – from Bethea and Tarashanna Blake in May 2018, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Englishtown police who responded to a report of an overdose death soon after found several folds of “CAMEL” and some em…

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by Jerry DeMarco