Williamsport man denied bail in case regarding fatal drug overdose
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A 43-year-old city man has been locked up on felony charges in connection with the death of a woman who died apparently from injecting heroin he gave her, state police alleged in court papers.
Daquan Alteriki Alford, of 816 Elmira St.., has been charged with drug delivery resulting in death and delivery of a controlled substance following the death of the woman, who was identified only in court papers as a confidential informant.
The woman was found dead in a bedroom at in home in Montgomery about 10:40 a.m. on May 1, police said.
"There was a fresh, recent injection mark on her right arm," a trooper wrote in an affidavit.
The woman contacted them on April 28 to inform them that Daquan "Baby" Alford asked her to get a rental car for him so that he could go to Newark, New Jersey, to "get an unknown amount of heroin," the trooper said, adding that the informant had made previous trips with Alford and was aware that "he traffics large amount(s) of heroin to the Williamsport area."
On the morning of April 29, the informant rented a 2020 Hyundai for Alford, who supposedly left Williamsport with the car that afternoon, returning to area about 2 a.m. on May 1, police were told.
The informant met with Alford about 2:15 a.m. in 600 block of Wildwood Boulevard in the city. "Alford asked the informant to 'take a ride' with him, which she did so," the trooper said in the affidavit.
The two drove to the 700 block of First Avenue, where Alford stopped to make a phone call to an unidentified man, police said. Alford, accompanied by the informant, met with the man and "provided a backpack containing the drugs Alford obtained from the Newark area," police said they were told.
Before handing over the backpack, Alford showed the informant large quantities of what he said were cocaine and heroin, police said.
As the informant and Alford departed, the unidentified man headed to a home in the 800 block of High Street, police were told.
Several hours later, the informant and a state trooper spoke on the phone for about 30 minutes. During that call, which took place about 8:30 a.m., the informant relayed information about her meeting up with Alford and the unidentified man.
The woman told the trooper that "Alford did not have cash on hand to pay her for renting the Hyundai, however, he provided her with what she related to be two bundles of heroin. The bundles of heroin were described as being white bags with a purple stamp with the word 'Roxanne,'" according to the affidavit.
The informant was found dead when an ambulance crew arrived at a home after being called there to investigate a report of "a medical emergency," police said.
"Within the top center drawer of a dresser in the bedroom was a purse that contained a hypodermic needle, one bundle of heroin (nine white bags with a purple stamp and the word 'Roxanne,') and one (identical) baggie which was open, partially used," the affidavit stated.
Found in the same dresser drawer were two additional bundles of heroin, the trooper said.
In examining the informant's cellphone, police found a text message she sent to Alford at 3:43 a.m., hours before she was found dead.
The message read in part "Yo (expletive) is fire, think it's been a while since I had some that good," according to the affidavit.
The investigation into the informant's death led investigators to an apartment at 832 High St. in the city, where state troopers executed a search warrant about 11 hours after the woman was found dead.
From the apartment, police seized an assortment of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy as well as nearly $7,400 of suspected drug money.
Alford was recently brought back here after being arrested in New Jersey. At his arraignment this week before District Judge Allen P. Page III, Alford told the judge he was unaware of the arrest warrant, but a state trooper also at the arraignment contradicted him, telling Page that Alford fled the area specifically because of the warrant. Denied bail, he was ordered to the Lycoming County Prison.