Crime & Safety

Man Charged In Montville Fatal Overdose: Police

A man was charged in East Lyme in connection with a fatal overdose last year.

EAST LYME, CT — A man was arrested in East Lyme on Wednesday on accusations that he supplied drugs to a fatal overdose victim in Montville. Shane Ebersole, 52, of West Main Street in Niantic, was charged with sale of narcotics and two counts of possession of narcotics.

The arrest came after an investigation of an October incident, when Montville police responded to a home where a person suffered a fatal overdose. Ebersole is accused of selling drugs to the overdose victim at a location in East Lyme prior to his death.

When Ebersole was arrested, police said he had drugs on him.

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His bond was set at $250,000. Ebersole is scheduled to appear in court Thursday.

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