BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A man in Bellingham died after ingesting counterfeit pills that a co-worker allegedly sold him.
The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office reports the 28-year-old victim overdosed and was found dead in a work truck in the 100 block of Kelly Road at about 9 p.m. Thursday.
Information linked the case to a recent spike in overdose deaths related to counterfeit pills made with fentanyl.
Deputies determined that the victim was sold a fentanyl-laced counterfeit Percocet pill by a co-worker earlier that afternoon, which he took
32-year-old Derik A. Shooster of Hamilton, Washington was arrested and booked into the Whatcom County Jail on the investigation of Controlled Substance Homicide.