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Arrest Made In Connection With Sunday's Local Overdoses

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published July 12, 2016 at 7:15 AM EDT
Columbus Division of Police

Columbus police have arrested a suspect on charges of selling the fentanyl-laced heroin that caused a rash of overdoses on Sunday. Police accuse 36-year-old Rayshon Alexander of selling the heroin to Sean Kuehner, who was killed. Police say the heroin caused eleven people to overdose. Two died. Other overdoses were also reported throughout Franklin County on Sunday.
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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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