Crime & Safety
Camden Man Sold Deadly Heroin In Gloucester County: Prosecutor
Damien D. Hariell was is charged with selling heroin laced with the powerful painkiller Fentanyl.
A Camden man has been arrested and charged with selling heroin laced with the powerful painkiller Fentanyl to a 44-year-old Mantua Township man on Aug. 4, the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday morning. The man died as a result of using the drug.
Damien D. Hariell, 36, is charged with strict liability for a drug death; possession of less than one-half ounce of heroin with intent to distribute and possession of heroin.
Hariell was arrested without incident at a friend’s home in Camden by officers with the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office’s Fugitive Unit on Thursday.
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The unemployed man was placed in the Salem County Jail in default of $200,000 bail.
The Major Crimes Unit of the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office and the Mantua Township Police Department investigated the fatality.
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Hariell is the third person the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office is currently prosecuting on first-degree drug-induced death charges. The cases involve fatalities associated with heroin or oxycodone, the prosecutor's office said.
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