TOMS RIVER, NJ – A Barnegat Township man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after it was proven that he gave a deadly dose of fentanyl-laced heroin to a woman in Point Pleasant Borough in 2019.
Curtis Geathers, 37, of Barnegat, pled guilty to charges filed after his arrest on February 7, 2019. Geathers was arrested by Detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit, and Berkeley Township Police Department.
On January 10, 2019, officers from the Point Pleasant Borough Police Department were dispatched to a local residence for a report of an unresponsive female. The female was transported to Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center in Brick Township, where she expired on January 12, 2019.
A subsequent investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force, and Point Pleasant Borough Police Department, revealed that Geathers was the supplier of heroin and fentanyl that was distributed to the victim on January 10, 2019. A toxicology report received by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the cause of the victim’s death to be Acetyl Fentanyl Toxicity.
On February 7, 2019, Geathers was arrested by Detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Strike Force, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit, and Berkeley Township Police Department. He has been lodged in the Ocean County Jail since the date of his arrest.