{"id":4193,"date":"2015-04-02T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T21:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T21:38:22","slug":"suspected-drug-dealer-arrested-in-death-of-brick-man-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/04\/suspected-drug-dealer-arrested-in-death-of-brick-man-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Drug Dealer Arrested in Death of Brick Man, 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jesse Hay, 25, charged with causing the drug-inducted death of a Brick resident. (Photo: Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office)<\/p><\/div>\n

Authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a South Plainfield man in the death of a Brick man to whom he is suspected of selling a lethal dose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.<\/p>\n

Jesse Hay, 25, faces charges under the state\u2019s strict liability statute for the drug-induced death of Anthony Busby, 24, a Brick resident. Busby died Dec. 19, 2014 after Brick police were called to a home on Marilyn Drive for a report of a male who was found unresponsive, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office. Busby was pronounced dead at 7:18 p.m. \u2013 just about a half hour after the 6:47 p.m. 911 call \u2013 at the scene by a medical examiner from Newark-Beth Israel Medical Center over the phone.<\/p>\n

Following a protocol put into place by Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato, an immediate investigation was started by the Brick Township Police Department, Ocean County Major Crime Unit, Ocean County Special Operations Group and the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department CSI unit.\u00a0 The partnering agencies immediately processed the scene, Della Fave said, collecting all evidence of suspected narcotic activity and isolating evidence that could possibly lead to the dealer responsible for selling Busby the illegal narcotic.<\/p>\n

Found at the scene were several white wax folds stamped with \u201c730 Virus\u201d in green ink and another ten wax folds stamped \u201cStrike Dead\u201d with the picture of the grim reaper in red and black ink.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the following months, the partnering agencies, with assistance from the Edison Police Department, North Plainfield Police Department and the South Plainfield Police Department, would develop information identifying Hay as a suspect, said Della Fave. Indeed, the Ocean County Medical Examiner\u2019s office found excessive levels of fentanyl in Busby\u2019s system through autopsy results that were returned Dec. 20.<\/p>\n

The Medical Examiner\u2019s report also confirmed that the wax folds stamped \u201c730 Virus\u201d and \u201cStrike Dead\u201d both contained fentanyl, according to Della Fave.<\/p>\n

Hay, who has been incarcerated continuously since his Dec. 23, 2014 arrest on the drug possession and distribution charges, was served his drug-induced death arrest warrant Thursday at 12:45 p.m. in the Middlesex County Jail by members of the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Major Crimes Unit and Brick Township Police Department.<\/p>\n

Della Fave said the prosecutor\u2019s office has conducted 19 such investigations since Coronato became prosecutor in 2013, making the once-rarely used charge a central part of the battle against Ocean County\u2019s heroin crisis. So far, six defendants have pled guilty to strict liability charges and two codefendants have pled guilty to drug charges in the 19 separate cases.<\/p>\n

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Authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a South Plainfield man in the death of a Brick man to whom he is suspected of selling a lethal dose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl. Jesse Hay, 25, faces charges under the state\u2019s strict liability statute for the drug-induced death of Anthony Busby, 24, a Brick resident. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1180,24,1179],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-anthony-busby","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-jesse-hay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-02-at-5.36.45-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-15D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}