SEVIERVILLE â Two Sevier County men are now facing second-degree murder charges in relation to an overdose death from May 22, 2020.
Forty-two-year-old Joshua Lombardo and 21-year-old Benjamin King, both of Seymour, were charged in indictments handed down earlier this week, when Sevier County convened a grand jury for the first time in months.
They were charged in the death of a 33-year-old Seymour woman who died from an overdose after using heroin that had been laced with fentanyl, according to information from the Sevier County Sheriffâs Office.
Investigators eventually learned she obtained the drugs from Lombardo and King.
The pair were charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs as well as murder.