Area woman charged with causing 2017 OD death

By Mon Valley Independent

By Tony LaRussa

Trib Total Media News Wire Services

A woman was arrested Wednesday, nearly two years after she allegedly supplied the drugs that caused a man to die from an overdose.

Melanie Sphar, 43, of Elizabeth, was charged with delivery of drugs resulting in death and three other related felonies in connection with the August 2017 overdose death of Ryan Evans, 27, according to court records.

Evans died from a combined drug intoxication of fentanyl and carfentanil.

Sphar is in Allegheny County Jail after failing to post a $100,000 bond, court records show.

She faces an preliminary hearing Thursday before Judge Kim Berkeley Clark.

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