A 47-year-old Long Branch man is charged with strict liability for drug induced death.
A man being held at the Monmouth County jail has been charged with smuggling heroin into the facility and providing the drugs to another man who later overdosed and died, authorities said Monday.
Alvino Hinton, 47, of Long Branch, is charged with strict liability for drug induced death, a first-degree charge, and other offenses months after a 32-year-old Toms River man died of heroin and fentanyl poisoning, theThe 32-year-old was found on the first floor of his cell at the jail in Freehold Township shortly after 9 a.m. on April 17, prosecutors said. He was brought to a local hospital and died the same day.
Authorities didn’t immediately explain how Hinton got drugs into the jail. Hinton was also charged with three drug offenses on Aug. 18. Hinton’s attorney couldn’t be reached Monday afternoon. Hinton is being held at the jail, according to online records. He has a lengthy criminal history with arrests for drug distribution and robbery, court records state.
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