Newfoundland police charge 19-year-old in teen boy's fatal overdose
Police in Newfoundland have charged a 19-year-old with manslaughter in the fatal overdose of a 14-year-old boy.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary says the teen was found unresponsive on March 14 at a home in Mount Pearl, N.L., near St. John's.
A news release says he was pronounced dead after he was rushed to the hospital.
Police say the boy took pills he believed to be Xanax and Dilaudid, but they contained a 'deadly concoction of synthetic opioids.'
The force's major crimes unit seized various substances, including the synthetic opioid phenazolam, from a St. John's residence in May.
The Constabulary says it arrested a 19-year-old male Thursday on charges including manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death and possession of cocaine, ketamine and phenazolam.
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