OSSIPEE — The father of an overdose victim last week convinced a Carroll County Superior Court judge to stiffen the sentence proposed for Massachusetts man who sold the fatal dose that killed his son.
Shane Vallieres, 40, of Norton, Mass., pleaded guilty to "sale of controlled drug death resulting" for dispensing fentanyl that caused Daniel Duggan Jr., 31, of Taunton, Mass., to die of acute fentanyl toxicity at his father's home in Conway on Feb. 24, 2019.
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