HARRISBURG — Attorney General Dave Sunday announced charges against a Beaver County man in connection to an Aliquippa man’s fatal fentanyl-related overdose in 2023.
The Office of Attorney General charged 43-year-old Donald J. Duncan with felony drug delivery resulting in death and related offenses, regarding the Nov. 20, 2023, death of a 24-year-old man.
Duncan, of New Brighton, was arraigned Tuesday and bail was set at $75,000.
Duncan provided fentanyl pills to the victim, who was found unconscious outside an apartment building and later died at a hospital.
“Fentanyl kills, and anyone who perpetrates the distribution and spread of this fatal poison will be held accountable for the death and heartbreak they cause,” Attorney General Sunday said. “I commend our partners at the Beaver County District Attorney’s Office for the collaboration on a high-priority issue in every Commonwealth community.”
“Thank you to the Attorney General’s Office for their hard work in making an arrest. Without their dedication, the family of the deceased may have never had the opportunity to see justice done,” Beaver County District Attorney Nathan Bible said. “My office stands by them in their continued fight to get poisons like fentanyl off the streets, and hold accountable those who supply it.”
Investigators used cellphone communications and other tactics to track the supply of fentanyl to Duncan.
The Beaver County District Attorney’s Office will prosecute the case. Criminal charges, and any discussion thereof, are merely allegations and all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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