Concord Man Indicted After Drug Death of Woman in 2016

CONCORD, NH — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and Pembroke Police have announced that a Concord man has been indicted on an acts prohibited charge after the death of a Pembroke woman last spring, according to a press statement. Morgen Chapman, 31, of Concord, was indicted for felony acts prohibited to the dispensing of a controlled drug-fentanyl, allegedly to Violetta Monastyrskaya, 21, in 2016, which caused her death. Chapman was indicted in late April by a grand jury in Merrimack County, according to Jesse O’Neill and Danielle Horgan, both assistant attorney generals.

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“The Pembroke Police Department has been actively investigating this case since Monastyrskaya’s death,” the statement said. “The charge carries a possible maximum sentence of life in state prison with the possibility of parole.”

Morgen will be arraigned in Merrimack County Superior Court tomorrow.

Chapman, who lived on Monroe Street in Concord last year, was arrested on a warrant for a probation violation out of Hillsborough County the day after Monastyrskaya’s death, according to a report on Patch.

According to her obituary, Monastyrskaya died on April 2, 2016. She came to America from Russia in March 1995, when she was a toddler. She graduated from Pembroke Academy in 2013, enjoyed art, drawing, and music, and was employed at Market Basket for about three years. The month before her death, according to the Berlin Daily Sun, she was indicted on a charge of delivery of articles to prisoners and possession of a controlled drug-Oxycodone, allegedly at the Northern Correctional Facility in Berlin.