Dover staggered by two heroin ODs, one fatal

DOVER - Police in this city responded to two suspected heroin overdoses on Monday, including one in the Central Avenue McDonald's parking lot and one at a Henry Law Avenue apartment in which the victim died.

The cause of the 19-year-old man's death has yet to be determined by the New Hampshire Chief Medical Examiner Office, but police said it appears consistent with a heroin or fentanyl overdose.

Police responded around 10:20 a.m. for a report of an unconscious male at the Cricketbrook Apartments at 93 Henry Law Avenue, but it was too late.

Fentanyl is an extremely powerful pain killer often mixed with heroin by traffickers.

The first incident came just about five minutes earlier for an unconscious man in the McDonald's parking lot at 912 Central Ave. First responders were able to revive the 25-year-old male victim with Narcan, an oft-used opiate antidote carried by most rescue departments and now many police departments as well.

The man was transported to Wentworth-Douglass and is expected to recover, a Dover Police press release said.

According to police, the number of suspected heroin or fentanyl overdoses in Dover this year now stands at 33, with five fatalities. In all of 2014, there were 45 overdoses with six fatalities.

Anyone with information about heroin or fentanyl sales is asked to call the Dover Police Department at 603-742-4646. Anonymous tips may be called into the Dover Crimeline at 603-749-6000 or via www.dovernhcrimeline.org.