A former local resident pleaded guilty in Bucks County court Thursday to selling the drugs that killed a neighbor in 2022.
According to a news release from the Bucks County District Attorney’s office, 39-year-old William Randall Wright of Kutztown was a resident of the Scenic View Apartments off Flint Hill Road in Springfield Township in June 2022 when he sold the drugs on which 62-year-old Steven Newhart fatally overdosed.
“On June 19, 2022, the day after Father’s Day, Springfield Township police responded to a report of a possibly deceased man at the Scenic View Apartments in the 2000 block of Scenic View Lane and found Newhart dead,” the DA’s office said. “An autopsy determined Newhart’s death was accidental, caused by a combination of drugs including cocaine and fentanyl.”
The DA’s office said detectives who investigated the circumstances surrounding Newhart’s death “quickly focused on Wright as a suspect” after learning that he lived across from Newhart and that Newhart had visited him the day before his death…