Josh Weber (Fond du Lac County Jail)
FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A Fond du Lac man was sentenced to prison for his role in a fatal Christmas Day overdose in 2020.
Joshua Weber, 47, received 12 years of initial confinement and 13 years of extended supervision, consecutive to any other sentence. Weber was previously convicted of first degree reckless homicide for delivering the drugs used in the victim’s overdose death.
Investigators believe the victim died in his home on Christmas Day 2020 but wasn’t found by family members until Dec. 28. “[Weber] left the Victim at the residence without calling for help,” Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney wrote in a news release.
According to the criminal complaint, an autopsy determined the man died of “fentanyl toxicity/overdose with evidence of recent cocaine use.”
Weber was interviewed by police Dec. 30. He said he picked up the victim, who withdrew $100 from a Fond du Lac ATM so he could purchase heroin in Milwaukee. Weber said the dealer was not there to sell them drugs, so he drove the victim back to his residence, where he “took four or five Xanax pills” and fell asleep, and Weber said he left the home.
However, police reviewed text messages between Weber and the victim that appeared to link the pair to a drug deal the night the victim died.
Nearly two years after the victim’s death, on Dec. 15, 2022, detectives once again interviewed Weber, telling him they believed he was responsible for delivering the drugs that killed the victim.
Weber first denied any involvement, but then confessed he went to Milwaukee to purchase the drugs for the victim in exchange for free heroin.
[Weber] stated VICTIM 1 is a grown adult and made a conscious decision. Weber stated it was VICTIM 1’s money that was used to purchase drugs but Weber had a “plug” in Milwaukee.
Weber stated he didn’t have money but in exchange for driving VICTIM 1 to his source that VICTIM 1 would give Weber some “free stuff” which investigators know to refer to drugs.
Weber said he purchased the drugs in Milwaukee because it is much cheaper to buy them there than in Fond du Lac. He said he didn’t remember how much heroin he and the victim received that night, adding, “it was probably fentanyl, not heroin.”
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