2 Jailed In Fatal Overdoses Linked To Elephant Tranquilizer
BEAVER, Pa. (AP) - Two Pennsylvania men have been jailed on charges they caused separate overdose deaths linked to abuse of an opioid-based sedative for elephants and other large animals.
County Coroner David Gabauer says the deaths, which occurred in Beaver Falls in late November and New Brighton in mid-December, are the first in Pennsylvania linked to carfentanil.
Nineteen-year-old Hakeem Shamier Stuckey is charged with drug delivery resulting in death and other charges for the November overdose and 29-year-old Reginald Bernard Davis faces similar charges in the December death.
Carfentanil is considered 100 times more powerful than fentanyl and 10,000 times stronger than morphine.
Davis faces a preliminary hearing Jan. 27 and his attorney didn't immediately return a call for comment Monday. Stuckey, of Aliquippa, doesn't have an attorney listed in court documents and faces a hearing Jan. 31.
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