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Suspect In Two Local Overdose Cases Indicted

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published April 26, 2016 at 6:11 AM EDT
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A Columbus man has been indicted on charges selling fentanyl-laced heroin that caused two recent, near-fatal overdoses. Arraignment is pending for 26-year-old Anthony Reitan, who is charged with selling two people the'blue-drop' heroin they ingested. Truro Township paramedics were able to treat them before they died.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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