Man Gets Jail Sentence for Best Man's Drug Overdose Death in Stamford

A Massachusetts man was sentenced to two years in jail and five years of probation Friday in connection with the overdose death of the best man at Stamford wedding reception four years ago.

Joseph Papagni, 29, of Lynnfield, MA., had accepted a plea deal in April 2014, in which he pleaded guilty to one count of sale of narcotics while prosecutors dropped a second-degree manslaughter and a second sale of narcotics count, according to The Hour.

Papagni was charged with supplying the drugs that led to the Sept. 9, 2010 overdose death of Nicholas Poti, 24, who served as his brother’s best man and was attending the wedding reception at the Stamford Marriott Hotel. Papagni reportedly supplied cocaine and Percocet prescription painkillers to Poti and two of his friends.

Poti, who was found not breathing the next morning, died from a mixture of cocaine, percocet and alcohol, police said, according to The Hour report, which can be found here.

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