MANCHESTER, NJ – After pleading guilty to distributing the deadly dose of fentanyl that killed a 35-year-old man in Manchester in June, Dandre Tubbs is going to prison for 7 years.
According to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, on August 16, 2021, officers from the Manchester Township Police Department responded to a residence for a report of an unresponsive 35-year-old male.
“Upon arrival, the officers discovered that the male was already deceased from an apparent drug overdose,” police said at the time.
Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said in a statement on Friday, “A subsequent investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit and Manchester Township Police Department Detective Bureau determined that Tubbs supplied fentanyl to the victim on August 15, 2021. A toxicology report confirmed the presence of fentanyl in the victim’s system. Based upon this toxicology analysis, the Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the fentanyl found in the victim’s system were the cause of his death.”