Lebanon man gets 5 years for selling drugs in fatal overdose

A 30-year-old Lebanon man pleaded guilty today to involuntary manslaughter and drug trafficking in connection to the overdose death of a 50-year-old man.

Andrew M. Lutz was sentenced to five years in prison by Warren County Common Pleas Judge Timothy Tepe.

Charles Boswell Jr. was found unresponsive in a vehicle Sept. 14, 2016, on U.S. 42 in Mason. He was taken to West Chester Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Investigation revealed that Boswell’s cause of death was an overdose from fentanyl and carfentanil. His passenger also was treated for a drug overdose but survived, according to the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office.

Mason police detectives learned Lutz had sold to Boswell and his passenger what they believed to be heroin a short time before at Lutz’s Lebanon residence. Lutz was arrested by Lebanon police and agents of the Warren County Drug Task Force. Investigators seized fentanyl, carfentanil and drug trafficking paraphernalia from Lutz’s Warren Street residence, prosecutor’s said.

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