Man charged with selling heroin to man who fatally overdosed

BY ERIKA NORTON
PORT JERVIS — Police charged a New Jersey man with selling the heroin suspected to have led to a fatal overdose in Sparrowbush, N.Y., according to the New York State Police.
Patrick Shevlin, 28, of Montague, N.J., was arrested on April 23 based upon an investigation by state and Port Jervis police into the circumstances leading up to the suspected overdose death of a 30-year-old male in Sparrowbush.
On April 21, state police were dispatched to a residence in Sprarrowbush during the early morning hours for an apparent heroin related overdose. Police allege that Shevlin sold a quantity of the narcotic drug heroin to the victim prior to his death.
Shevlin is charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, a Class B felony. He is also charged with the criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell in the third degree, all Class B felonies.
State police say the charges result from Shevlin being found in possession of 270 individual packets containing heroin at the time of his arrest on West Main Street in the City of Port Jervis by Port Jervis Police and State Police.
Shevlin was arraigned in Port Jervis City Court and remanded to Orange County jail in lieu of $50,000 bail pending further court appearances.
The arrest stems from a joint investigation conducted by the New York State Police, the Port Jervis City Police Department, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office. The death investigation is continuing and police and prosecutors are awaiting the results of an autopsy and toxicology analysis by the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Office.