GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A man has been convicted of causing the heroin overdose death of a Neenah man.
47-year-old Donald Harden of Fort Atkinson now faces a mandatory life sentence in connection with the September 2014 death of 24-year-old Frederick Schnettler.
According to prosecutors, Harden bought heroin in Chicago and repackaged it in Watertown before distributing it in the Fox Valley area.
Harden, officials say, arranged a meeting with one of his Fox Valley distributors in a Waupun parking lot on September 4, 2014. At that meeting, Harden gave one of his co-conspirators 11 grams of heroin, telling her to “be careful with this stuff, it’s got bodies on it.”
The same heroin was later used by Schnettler.
Harden has prior convictions for manufacture or delivery of cocaine in 2000 in Jefferson County and manufacture or delivery of heroin in 2007 in Dane County.
Based on his prior drug convictions, he faces a mandatory life sentence. Harden is due back in court in February.
