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Feds: Dealer Admits Selling Fentanyl Dose That Killed Jersey Shore Woman
A Trenton dealer admitted in federal court that she sold a Jersey Shore woman the fentanyl dose that killed her, authorities said.
Tarashanna Blake, 33, met the 39-year-old victim near her Englishtown home, where the sale was made, on May 15, 2018, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said.
Englishtown police found the buyer dead of an overdose later that day, with several folds of what at first appeared to be heroin stamped “CAMEL” nearby, Honig said.
It was actually fentanyl, she said.
Blake took a deal from the government rather than face trial, pleading guilty in U.S. District Court …
