New Jersey boy, 12, dies of fentanyl overdose after cleaning uncle's drug paraphernalia

[Sugar Cookie]

A New Jersey man has been arrested, accused of causing his 12-year-old nephew’s overdose death by forcing him to clean up drug paraphernalia that contained fentanyl.

Troy Nokes, 35, was hit with a slew of charges Monday, including first-degree aggravated manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child, in connection with the death of his nephew, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and Gloucester Township Police announced in a news release.

The young boy, who was not identified, lived in the Blackwood, New Jersey, home where Nokes had allegedly manufactured fentanyl, the release said.

The child found unresponsive on a school bus on Jan. 24 this year, the release said.

The boy was hospitalized and succumbed to his injuries on Feb. 1. His cause of death was ruled drug intoxication, specifically fentanyl, according to the City of Philadelphia Office of the Medical Examiner’s Office.

Nokes allegedly manufactured the drug the weekend before the child’s death and allegedly directed the child to clean up paraphernalia that contained fentanyl, prosecutors said. Witnesses indicated the boy was not wearing gloves at the time, the release stated.

In addition to manslaughter, Nokes was also charged with first-degree strict liability drug-induced death, first degree maintaining a controlled dangerous substance production facility, employing a juvenile in a drug distribution scheme, witness tampering, tampering with evidence, hindering apprehension and aggravated assault, among other charges, the release stated.

A woman named Joanna Johnson was also charged in the case with tampering of evidence and hindering Nokes’ arrest, prosecutors said. NBC Philadelphia reported Johnson is Nokes' girlfriend.

Gloucester Township Police Chief David Harkins told the station the grandmother and caretaker of the child is "devastated."

"And she is losing a family member now who’s going into the criminal justice system to be prosecuted. But more importantly, she’s lost her 12-year-old grandson," Harkins said.

Nokes and Johnson were arrested by the United States Marshals Service Regional Fugitive Task Force Thursday.

They are being held at the Camden County Correctional Facility pending a pretrial detention hearing. Lawyer information for the pair was not immediately available.

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[Sevens My Charm]

That’s so pathetic .. my dad didn’t do business around me and he sure the hell didn’t cook around me .. pieces of utter gutter garbage ..

 

[Sugar Cookie]

@Sevens My Charm

This man had the child clean up the " paraphernalia ' he probably had the kid selling drugs too

 

[Sevens My Charm]

@Sugar Cookie that’s so sad to me .. my dad wanted so much more for me .. my dad wanted a better life for me .. my dad wanted me so far away from drugs .. my dad never did any drugs with me .. not even pot with me until I was grown and on my own .. and still when we went to parties we separated and he went with his friends and I went with mine .. my dad watchfully kept and eye on me .. I never asked my dad for anything and he never offered .. my dad never ever gave or dealt to my friends .. the one and only time my dad ever offered me anything he was trying to save my life .. I had been a bender and finally ate and drank after 3 days and the drugs in my system hit me so hard my dad and his best friend honestly thought I wouldn’t make it .. my dad loved me so much and wanted so much more for me that the guy who introduced me to it almost died at the hands of my father more than once .. two times I distinctly remember my dads friends the one time stopped him halfway down the easement with two loaded weapons the night I was ODing the second the guy came to my parents gate screaming at my dad about me and my dad took a Louisville Slugger and chased him off the property .. my dad is the one who saved my life from drugs at that point in my life .. I did loose my shit loosing my son, dad, uncle and grandfather all within three years and turned back to killing the pain .. for me it was always about killing emotions and pain from the first time I took drugs and realized what I thought was a benefit .. my dads memory helped me get clean again and I think about him and my son almost daily .. my dad will be gone 13 years in July and my son would be 16 in August .. I learned that pain is never far away but time and people who enter your life allow you the grace of learning to cope with the pain a lot better .. this guy should die a slow painful death .. just keep ODing him and reviving him until you get bored .. the only decent thing that came is this beautiful child will not watch constant death around him, will never suffer addiction and will not suffer incarceration because of the people who were supposed to love him and protect him .. he was spared a life of unending pain ..

 

[Kitsune Faye]

@Sugar Cookie that’s so sad to me .. my dad wanted so much more for me .. my dad wanted a better life for me .. my dad wanted me so far away from drugs .. my dad never did any drugs with me .. not even pot with me until I was grown and on my own .. and still when we went to parties we separated and he went with his friends and I went with mine .. my dad watchfully kept and eye on me .. I never asked my dad for anything and he never offered .. my dad never ever gave or dealt to my friends .. the one and only time my dad ever offered me anything he was trying to save my life .. I had been a bender and finally ate and drank after 3 days and the drugs in my system hit me so hard my dad and his best friend honestly thought I wouldn’t make it .. my dad loved me so much and wanted so much more for me that the guy who introduced me to it almost died at the hands of my father more than once .. two times I distinctly remember my dads friends the one time stopped him halfway down the easement with two loaded weapons the night I was ODing the second the guy came to my parents gate screaming at my dad about me and my dad took a Louisville Slugger and chased him off the property .. my dad is the one who saved my life from drugs at that point in my life .. I did loose my shit loosing my son, dad, uncle and grandfather all within three years and turned back to killing the pain .. for me it was always about killing emotions and pain from the first time I took drugs and realized what I thought was a benefit .. my dads memory helped me get clean again and I think about him and my son almost daily .. my dad will be gone 13 years in July and my son would be 16 in August .. I learned that pain is never far away but time and people who enter your life allow you the grace of learning to cope with the pain a lot better .. this guy should die a slow painful death .. just keep ODing him and reviving him until you get bored .. the only decent thing that came is this beautiful child will not watch constant death around him, will never suffer addiction and will not suffer incarceration because of the people who were supposed to love him and protect him .. he was spared a life of unending pain ..

I just want to give you a big hug. I really do.