Police blotter
The following items are based on information from police, unless otherwise noted:
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa.
Drug Dealer Sentenced: Derron Thompson, 26, of Bristol Township, got sentenced Friday to 12.5 to 25 years in state prison for selling the drugs that caused a Levittown man to fatally overdose. Thompson pleaded guilty in the case to drug delivery resulting in death and an array of other drug charges and firearms offenses, admitting he sold the deadly batch of fentanyl that killed his client, 29-year-old Tyler Mulhern, on Jan. 10, 2017. Mulhern was found unresponsive on a bathroom floor of his family’s home on Sugarmaple Drive in the Stonybrook section of Levittown in Bristol Township when his father came home from Derron Thompson
work. Efforts by paramedics to revive him failed. The victim’s father gave police permission to search his son’s phone, yielding text messages and calls that led them to Thompson. At about 1 p.m. that day, investigators determined, Mulhern bought several blue wax paper envelopes believed to contain heroin from Thompson outside the Levittown Trace Apartments on Ford Road, where Thompson resided. Authorities believe the victim overdosed about an hour later. An autopsy determined that Mulhern died of a fentanyl overdose. At the time, Thompson already was under investigation by narcotics investigators, who had documented several of his transactions and were planning another drug buy from him that evening. Thompson was arrested several days later. Police found him with 106 wax paper packets matching those found near Mulhern’s body, a number of pills containing Alprazolam, fentanyl or oxycodone, and marijuana. In an interview with police, he admitted selling what he had believed to be heroin and Xanax to Mulhern on the day the victim died. Police later found a loaded Glock 23 handgun inside the 2003 Crown Victoria sedan Thompson drove during his drug-selling excursions. Thompson was on parole for previous drug-dealing and firearms charges and was prohibited from possessing guns, said Bucks County Deputy District Attorney Thomas C. Gannon, who prosecuted the case, according to a news release issued by the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office. The hefty prison sentence was the result of a plea agreement negotiated between Gannon and defense attorney Harry J. Cooper. Judge Rea B. Boylan accepted the terms of the agreement and imposed the sentence, which included a consecutive five years of probation for delivery of fentanyl. The case was investigated by the Bristol Township, Falls Township and Bristol Borough police departments, as well as the Bucks County Detectives.
HIGHTSTOWN
Drug Arrest: Sesay Omaru, 26, of North Brunswick, was arrested Wednesday for being in alleged possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana and alleged possession of drug paraphernalia during the course of a motor vehicle stop on Etra Road. Omaru was transported to Hightstown Police headquarters, where he got booked, processed and issued traffic summonses. He was ultimately released on a summons complaint with a pending court date. Another Drug Arrest: Brianne M. Puleio, 25, of East Windsor, was arrested Friday for being in alleged possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana and alleged possession of drug paraphernalia during the course of a motor vehicle stop in the parking lot of Hightstown Police headquarters. She was escorted into police headquarters, where she got booked, processed and issued traffic summonses before getting released on a summons complaint with a pending court date. Warrant Arrest: Andre T. Scott, 33, of North Carolina, was arrested Aug. 11 for having active warrants out of Rahway and Linden City municipal courts. Police discovered he had warrants for his arrest during the course of a motor vehicle stop on Franklin Street. Scott was transported to Hightstown Police headquarters, where he got booked, processed and issued motor vehicle summonses before getting released on his own recognizance. Another Warrant Arrest: John T. Stasicky, 48, of Monroe Township, was arrested Friday on an active warrant out of Wrightstown. Police discovered he had a warrant out for his arrest during the course of a motor vehicle stop on Mercer Street. Stasicky was transported to police headquarters and then got booked, processed and ultimately released on his own recognizance.