Whitehall Man Pleads Guilty In Woman's Fatal Drug Overdose

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia

Published August 14, 2017 at 5:24 AM EDT

A Whitehall man has pleaded guilty to charges of selling fatal doses of heroin. Richard Edwards faces federal drug trafficking charges. Edwards admitted to selling a heroin-fentanyl mix that killed 54-year-old Gail Salyers of Whitehall last December.

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