Va. man gets prison for heroin death

Published April 18, 2014 6:31am ET



HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A Harrisonburg man who sold a deadly dose of heroin has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The U.S. attorney’s office says 31-year-old Jean Paul Alvarado was found guilty in May 2013 to a single charge of distributing heroin resulting in death. He was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg.

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