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NORRISTOWN â A Pottstown man is on his way to state prison after he admitted to his role in the overdose death of another man who was found dead in a vehicle on a parking lot of an apartment complex in the borough.
Javier Esteban Velez, 24, of the unit block of North Franklin Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 4 to 8 years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to a charge of drug delivery resulting in death in connection with the Oct. 29, 2019, fatal overdose of 38-year-old Matthew A. Surbrook.
Other charges of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and criminal use of a communication facility were dismissed as part of the plea agreement.
It was a total loss, said Jeff Bealer, Boyertown Fire & Rescue public information officer.
Shortly after 1 p.m., fire crews from Berks and Montgomery counties arrived at 1251 Reading Ave. (Route 562) to find the garage was completely engulfed, and crews went into defensive mode to protect surrounding structures, said Bealer in a release.
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A pickup truck and lawn tractors were involved, as well as propane tanks and other cylinders in the garage that exploded every so often causing a threat to firefighters, he said.
The garage was an oversized single car two story structure and the top story collapsed into the exterior walls soon after crews arrived.