Possible Heroin Found At Avon Lake Home

AVON LAKE, OH — A 24-year-old Avon Lake man may be facing charges for possession of heroin, pending lab analysis. The drugs were found by a 64-year-old man who lives at the same home as the man.

Police say they were called to the house on Brookcrest Place when the 64-year-old called 911 and reported finding suspicious, possible drugs. Officers took the item as evidence and are having the material analyzed by a lab. If the material is heroin, as suspected by police, then charges will be leveled at the 24-year-old.

The home on Brookcrest Place has been a frequent stop for Avon Lake Police over the past two months. Police had to treat the 24-year-old Avon Lake man for drug overdoses twice in seven days, according to police records obtained by Patch. The two overdoses took place Jan. 11 and Jan. 18.

A week earlier, police were called to the Brookcrest Place home for a possible overdose. The suspect was the same 24-year-old.

Ohio had the second highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the nation in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in December 2017. More than 63,600 Americans died of overdoses last year, the deadliest year on record for the United States.

According to the CDC, the national rate for drug overdose deaths was 19.8 per 100,000. The 2016 rate of overdose deaths in Ohio was 39.1 per 100,000.

Overdose deaths last year may have outpaced even 2016 in Ohio, according to data from the CDC. By May 2016, there were 3,606 overdose deaths statewide. By the same time in 2017, there were 5,097 overdose deaths, an increase of 43 percent.

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