Pennsylvania State Police investigators have charged a Springfield Township man in the fatal overdose of a McKean Township resident in August.

Jacob L. Bells, 31, was in the Erie County Prison Friday morning on $100,000 bond following his arraignment Thursday night by North East District Judge Scott Hammer on felony counts of drug delivery resulting in death, criminal use of a communication device and possession with intent to deliver and a misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance.

State police in Girard filed the charges on Thursday following an investigation into the Aug. 14 death of a 24-year-old man at an address in the 300 block of Maple Street in McKean Township.

Troopers wrote in the criminal complaint filed against Bells that investigators found drug paraphernalia and a cell phone near the victim's body, and the paraphernalia was found to contain fentanyl.

Investigators said they found and reviewed messages between Bells and the victim on Facebook messenger on the late evening of Aug. 13 in which a drug transaction was set up and took place on a street in front of the Maple Street address. When troopers interviewed Bells on Sept. 2, he admitted to selling heroin/fentanyl to the victim, according to information in the affidavit filed with the complaint.

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The Erie County Coroner's Office ruled the victim's death as accidental due to acute fentanyl toxicity, according to information in the affidavit.

Bells is tentatively scheduled to appear in court for his preliminary hearing on March 23, according to information in his online court docket sheet.

Contact Tim Hahn at thahn@timesnews.com. Follow him on Twitter @ETNhahn.

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