Ocean County Man Charged After Supplying Heroin, Fentanyl To Man Who Overdosed, Police Say

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Ocean County Man Charged After Supplying Heroin, Fentanyl To Man Who Overdosed, Police Say

An Ocean County man is now facing liability charges after the county prosecutor says the heroin and fentanyl he gave to a man caused his fatal overdose.

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Ocean County Man Charged After Supplying Heroin, Fentanyl To Man Who Overdosed, Police Say​

By CBS3 StaffOctober 16, 2021 at 1:21 pm

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OCEAN COUNTY, N.J. (CBS) — An Ocean County man is now facing liability charges after the county prosecutor says the heroin and fentanyl he gave to a man caused his fatal overdose. Dandre Tubbs, 33, is now charged with strict liability drug induced death for the incident.
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said on August 16, officers with Manchester Township responded to a home after reports of an unresponsive man. The man, 35, was already dead from an apparent drug overdose.
Investigators said Tubbs supplied the man with the drugs the day before, and he was charged on Aug. 19 with multiple counts of possessing and distributing heroin.
Earlier this week, the Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the heroin and fentanyl in the man’s system caused his death.
Tubbs has been in the Ocean County Jail since his August arrest.

 

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Suspected New Jersey drug dealer charged in man’s fentanyl overdose death

D’Andre Tubbs, 33, was charged Friday in the Aug. 16 death of a 35-year-old man discovered “already deceased” from an apparent OD at a Manchester home.

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Suspected New Jersey drug dealer charged in man’s fentanyl overdose death​

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Joshua Rhett Miller


October 18, 2021 8:47am
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D'Andre Tubbs was charged in a 35-year-old man's overdose death. Ocean County Corrections

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A suspected drug dealer in New Jersey has been charged in the death of a man who overdosed on a cocktail of fentanyl and heroin, prosecutors said.
D’Andre Tubbs, 33, was charged Friday in the Aug. 16 death of a 35-year-old man discovered “already deceased” from an apparent OD at a Manchester home, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
Tubbs, 33, was arrested three days later after investigators determined he supplied the heroin and fentanyl to the victim a day before the death. A toxicology analysis determined both drugs in the man’s system were the cause of his death, prosecutors said.
“As a consequence, Tubbs has been charged with strict liability drug induced death,” prosecutors said in a statement.
If convicted of the homicide charge, Tubbs, who has been locked up since his arrest, could face up to 20 years in prison, according to state sentencing guidelines.

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Tubbs was initially charged with multiple counts of distribution of heroin, possession of heroin and other drug counts. He remained held without bail at the Ocean County Jail as of early Monday, records show. It’s unclear if he’s hired an attorney who could comment on his behalf.
Fentanyl, which is up to 100 times stronger than morphine, is often added to heroin to increase its potency or is disguised as a highly potent form of the highly addictive opioid, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Nearly 2 million fentanyl-laced pills were seized during a two-month nationwide investigation leading to 810 arrests, DEA officials announced earlier this month.
“These fake pills are more lethal than ever,” DEA officials said in a statement. “DEA laboratory testing reveals that today, four out of 10 fentanyl-laced fake pills contain a potentially lethal dose.”