Beverly Drug Overdose Death Investigation Leads To 2 Arrests: Police

BEVERLY, MA — Beverly police charged a Danvers woman and Manchester-By-The-Sea man with drug possession with intent to distribute in separate stings following the investigation into an apparent overdose death downtown in November.

A phone recovered from the person who died contained phone numbers that indicated multiple drug suppliers. Upon contacting one of those suspected dealers, police said an undercover detective arranged a meeting with Lisa Marie Oliveri, 56, of Danvers, and that Oliveri was arrested after arriving at the location with what they said was a bag of the pharmaceutical drug Gabapentin.

Police said they were also able to contact a second suspected supplier and arranged a similar purchase.

They said Alexander Singh Gurjal, 20, of Manchester-By-The-Sea, provided the undercover detective with a "menu and pricing list of various drugs he could supply" that included ecstasy, animal tranquilizers, LSD, Ritalin, Focalin, Adderall and marijuana, which were believed to be purchased off the "Dark Web."

Police said Gurjal admitted, during the course of the three-month investigation, "indirect involvement with the overdose death of his girlfriend" in Chicago in 2021. Gurjal was arrested on Jan. 12 after police said he "sold various drugs in the City of Beverly to an undercover police officer."

This was the second drug bust Beverly police announced in consecutive days after they said three kilograms of cocaine worth more than $100,000 were seized in a bust involving a Lynn man from December.