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Drug defendant gets up to 5 years

A previously convicted drug felon who allegedly sold a potent prescription painkiller that caused an Evans City man to die of an overdose will serve up to 5 years in prison.

Mark E. Noah, 48, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced in Butler County Court today.

According to court records, police arrested Noah after 52-year-old Kenneth Stefanowicz died April 7 of an apparent drug overdose at his Evans City home.

Among the drugs found in Stefanowicz’s system was Fentanyl, a fast-acting painkiller purportedly 100 times more powerful than morphine.

Investigators have alleged that Stefanowicz died just hours after he went to Noah’s home to buy drugs.

Police allege Noah sold Stefanowicz two stamp bags of suspected heroin marked “American Dreamer.” However, analysis by the state police crime lab reportedly determined those bags also contained Fentanyl.

“I’m sorry,” was the only thing the defendant said during the sentencing hearing.

In addition to the involuntary manslaughter case, Noah pleaded no contest to a felony count of unlawful delivery of drugs in connection to an arrest five months before Stefanowicz’s death.

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