A Bensalem man is to spend nearly two years in county jail after admitting that he provided the heroin that led to his sister’s fatal overdose last year.
In a Bucks County court appearance Monday, Oct. 20, 39-year-old John Mateo entered open guilty pleas to involuntary manslaughter, recklessly endangering another person and related drug charges in the death of Amber Leigh Mateo.
Montgomery County Senior Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas Branca accepted the plea and sentenced John Mateo to nine to 23 months in Bucks County Correctional Center. He also ordered Mateo to serve three years of probation starting after his release…