Man Provided Drugs That Led To Lower Bucks Co. Overdose Death: DA

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —A man has been charged with supplying drugs to a woman in Middletown Township that led to her overdose death last June, authorities said.

Thomas Joseph Hall, 55, of Warminster, was charged Wednesday in the death of 57-year-old Gisela Leair, who was found dead on June 4 in the bedroom of her home in the 900 block of Poplar Street in Langhorne, Middletown Township, the Bucks County District Attorney's Office said.

An examination of the victim’s phone found she had a conversation with Hall the day before she died.

In the conversation, she asked for oxycodone or Percocet, and Hall offered her methadone.

The three bottles of methadone were prescribed to a Thomas Hall and a warning label on the bottles advised, “may be fatal to adults.”

Hall agreed to meet her that night and cellphone data records indicated that Hall was in the area of Leair’s home on June 3 between 7:39 p.m. and 8 p.m., authorities said.

Police said that Hall attempted to return to the home through a locked door and was confronted by Leair’s boyfriend, who had called 911.

When the boyfriend told Hall that Leair had died, Hall responded, “I didn’t give her anything,” according to a criminal complaint.

An autopsy determined that Leair’s cause of death was drug intoxication with methadone, lorazepam, and other drugs found in her system.

Hall was charged with drug delivery resulting in death, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, criminal use of a communication facility, involuntary manslaughter, recklessly endangering another person, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Daniel Baranoski, who remanded him to Bucks County Correctional Facility under $500,000 bail.

Investigators seized items that included Leair’s cellphone, three clear plastic bottles that contained methadone, two clear baggies and a bowl that contained multiple tablets. Those tablets were identified as lorazepam and oxycodone.