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Charges in Laced-Heroin Death in New Jersey

A South Jersey man faces charges that he sold heroin laced with powerful painkiller Fentanyl that resulted in a Gloucester County manโ€™s death.

The Gloucester County Prosecutorโ€™s Office announced the arrest of Damien Harrell of Camden.

Investigators said the 36-year-old sold the laced heroin to a 44-year-old Mantua Township man. That man died in early August.

Prosecutors charged Harrell with strict liability for a drug death, drug possession and drug dealing. A judge sent Harrell, who is unemployed, to jail on $200,000 bail.

Harrell is the third person in Gloucester County facing first-degree charges for a drug-induced death.

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