Fourth death linked to Va. heroin ring
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By Staff Reports
Published: January 13, 2009
ALEXANDRIA -- Federal court documents show a fourth fatal heroin overdose has been linked to a heroin ring in Northern Virginia.
Twenty-three-year-old Matthew Greenlee of Fairfax is charged in U.S. District Court in the September death of 20-year-old Carmen Somers of Falls Church.
Charging documents say Greenlee provided Somers with heroin at his home. The documents say that when Somers became ill, Greenlee refused to call paramedics because of the presence of heroin at his home. Somers died after a friend drove her to the hospital.
Fourteen people have been charged in the heroin ring, based in Centreville. Two Fairfax City women pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
Most of those charged are former and current students at Westfield High School.
-- The Associated Press
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Posted by ( 1twenty13 ) on January 13, 2009 at 11:06 am
Yet another reason Virginia needs to secede from Northern Virginia…
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Posted by ( zerro ) on January 13, 2009 at 10:24 am
,,yahooo,Afganastan!!keep it commin !!since the invasion herion production has tripled in afgan,,while farming for food has decreased by as much,,but no problem,,we just ship more(3x) the food to afgan at taxpayers expence !!time to send in the usa/columbian dea task force,,or vietnam agent orange !right,,and just maybe build that border fence ,,ahhh,since thats where most of it is comming from,,if not expect more addition and deaths,,
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