Bristol Twp Drug Dealer Jailed For Up To 25 Years For OD Death

A Bristol Township drug dealer who admitted selling a Levittown man the fentanyl that ended his life in 2017 will serve up to 25 years in prison, Bucks County authorities announced.

Derron Thompson, 26, of Bristol Township, pleaded guilty in Bucks County court to drug delivery resulting in death and related drug and firearms offenses. Thompson admitted selling Tyler Mulhern, 29, the fentanyl that killed him on Jan. 10, 2017. He was subsequently sentenced to serve 12 ½ to 25 years.

According to authorities, Mulhern was found unresponsive on a bathroom floor of his family’s home on Sugarmaple Drive. Paramedics were not able to revive him.

Investigators were led to Thompson, who was already under investigation for selling drugs, after Mulhern's father granted them permission to search his son's phone.

According to prosecutors, Mulhern bought several blue wax paper envelopes believed to contain heroin from Thompson around 1 p.m. that day outside the Levittown Trace Apartments, where Thompson lived. He overdosed about an hour later from what was determined in an autopsy to be a fentanyl overdose.

Police said they found in Thompson's possession 106 wax paper packets matching those found near Mulhern’s body, a number of pills containing Alprazolam, fentanyl or oxycodone, and marijuana. Thompson told police he believed he sold Mulhern heroin and Xanax.

Police also found a loaded Glock 23 handgun inside the 2003 Crown Victoria sedan Thompson drove during his drug-selling excursions, authorities said. Thompson, who was on parole for previous drug-dealing and firearms charges, was prohibited from possessing guns, prosecutors said.

The sentence was the result of a plea agreement.

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