Charleroi man charged in borough resident’s fatal overdose
A Charleroi man was charged Tuesday with supplying a lethal batch of fentanyl-laced heroin to a man who ingested the drugs in June and died.
Aaron M. Mitchell is facing one count of drug delivery resulting in death and other felony charges in connection with the June 18 death of Bradley Glesk in his Charleroi home.
Charleroi Regional police said Glesk's mother found him unresponsive in the bathroom inside the home they shared, and she immediately began trying to resuscitate him using multiple doses of Naloxone while performing CPR on him. Police officers and firefighters also attempted to revive him, but paramedics ultimately determined that he had died.
Police said they found no paraphernalia in the bathroom, so they believe Glesk snorted the heroin. An autopsy later showed Glesk died of fentanyl intoxication, police said.
A review of his cell phone revealed he had regular contact with Mitchell through text messages and phone calls in the hours before his death, according to court documents. Police later located Mitchell and seized his cellphone using a search warrant, which indicated he deleted Glesk's contact information and call logs, but investigators were still able to retrieve that information.
Charleroi Regional police on Tuesday charged Mitchell, 41, with felony counts of drug delivery resulting in death, possession with intent to deliver and criminal use of a communication facility. District Judge Eric Porter arraigned him Wednesday morning, and sent him to the Washington County jail without bond.
Mitchell's preliminary hearing before Porter is tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m. Oct. 24. No attorney was listed for Mitchelll in online court documents.
