Credit: Bristol Twp. Police
The man sold who the drugs that caused Tyler Mulhern to fatally overdose last year has been sentenced to state prison.
Derron Thompson, 26, of Levittown, will spend 12 ½ to 25 years in state prison as part of a guilty plea accepted by Bucks County Judge Rea Boylan. The agreement also includes five years of probation, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.
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The 26 year old pleaded guilty to drug delivery resulting in death and other of other drug and firearms offenses.
Thompson admitted to authorities that he sold the fentanyl to 29-year-old Mulhern, who fatally overdosed on January 10, 2017 in his family’s home on Sugarmaple Lane in Bristol Township’s Levittown section.
Thompson, who was on parole on a previous drug-dealing and firearms charges, said he sold drugs to support his family and admitted to selling what he believed to be heroin and Xanax to Mulhern on the day he died.
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Investigators were able to link Thompson to Mulhern’s drugs through text messages and calls recovered from his phone.
From prosecutors:
At about 1 p.m. [on January 10, 2017], investigators determined, Mulhern had 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 he overdosed about an hour later. An autopsy determined that Mulhern died of a fentanyl overdose.
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 marijiuana.
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Police were already investigating Thompson at the time of Mulhern’s death for drug sales.
Investigators said they located a Glock 23 handgun inside the 2003 Crown Victoria sedan Thompson drove.
The sentence was part of a plea agreement between Deputy District Attorney Thomas Gannon and defense attorney Harry Cooper.
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