El fiscal del condado de Ocean, Bradley D.. Billhimer and Manchester Township Police Chief Robert Dolan announced that on October 15, 2021, Dandre Tubbs, 33, de Mánchester, was charged with Strict Liability Drug Induced Death in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-9a, relative to the death of a 35 year-old male in Manchester on August 16, 2021.
En Agosto 16, 2021, Officers from the Manchester Township Police Department responded to a residence for a report of an unresponsive 35 hombre de un año. A la llegada, the Officers discovered that the male was already deceased from an apparent drug overdose.
A subsequent investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit and Manchester Township Police Department Detective Bureau determined that Tubbs supplied heroin and fentanyl to the victim on August 15, 2021. En Agosto 19, 2021, Tubbs was arrested and charged with three counts of Distribution of Heroin in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5b(3); two counts of Possession of Heroin in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10a(1); Possession of Alprazolam in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10a(1); Possession of a Hypodermic Syringe in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:36-6a; y posesión de parafernalia de drogas en violación de N.J.S.A. 2C:36-2a.
Further investigation and toxicology analysis recently received by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the presence of heroin and fentanyl in the victim’s system. Based upon this toxicology analysis, the Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the heroin and fentanyl found in the victim’s system were the cause of his death. As a consequence, Tubbs has been charged with Strict Liability Drug Induced Death.
Tubbs has been lodged in the Ocean County Jail since his arrest on August 19, 2021.
Prosecutor Billhimer and Chief Dolan acknowledge the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit, Fuerza de ataque antinarcóticos de la oficina del fiscal del condado de Ocean, Unidad de Delitos de Alta Tecnología de la Oficina del Fiscal del Condado de Ocean, Oficina de detectives del Departamento de Policía del municipio de Manchester, Equipo de Control de Narcóticos del Departamento de Policía del Municipio de Manchester, Manchester Township Police Department K-9 Unit, División de Patrulla del Departamento de Policía del Municipio de Manchester, Unidad de Investigación de la Escena del Crimen de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Ocean, y la Oficina del Médico Forense del Condado de Ocean, for their combined and collaborative efforts in connection with this investigation.
Los cargos mencionados anteriormente son meras acusaciones y se recuerda a la prensa y al público que todos los acusados se presumen inocentes a menos y hasta que se demuestre su culpabilidad más allá de toda duda razonable en un tribunal de justicia. RPC. 3.6(b)(6).