Pennsylvania man faces prison for deadly heroin overdoses
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Pennsylvania man faces prison for supplying fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in two overdose deaths last year.
Thirty-four-year-old Homestead resident Romar Watts is scheduled for sentencing Tuesday by a federal judge in Pittsburgh. He and two other men have pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute the drug that resulted in the deaths of Stacey Shaw and Ray Smith.
Shaw overdosed in the bathroom of a Cambria County convenience store in March 2015. Smith died at a home in Munhall in April 2015.
A co-defendant, 40-year-old Ebensburg resident Brian Borruto, was sentenced to eight years in prison last month. He was linked only to Shaw’s death.
Thirty-two-year-old Andre Higgs, of Pittsburgh, has also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced Nov. 1. Federal prosecutors have agreed to a 15-year sentence for Higgs.