Charges laid after 27-year-old man dies from ‘mixed drug toxicity’ in Ontario: police [Video]

Charges have been laid after a 27-year-old man died from “mixed drug toxicity” in Ontario, police say.

Niagara Regional Police said that emergency crews went to a family home on Aug. 2 last summer in Welland, where the man was found dead.

A sudden death investigation was launched by officers in conjunction with the coroner’s office.

“The Niagara Regional Police Service’s Opioid Enforcement and Education Unit also began a parallel investigation into the sale of illicit drugs,” police said.

“A postmortem examination of the deceased male took place where it was determined that his cause of death was the result of mixed drug toxicity involving fentanyl, fluorofentanyl and methyl-fentanyl.”

On Tuesday, 26-year-old Welland resident Brady Neff appeared in court and is facing charges, police said.

Neff is charged with two counts of trafficking a controlled substance (fentanyl), with one offence date being July 31 and the other Aug. 1, police …