Byrd
Potts
Ferguson
WARWICK – Two Warwick residents and one from Paterson, New Jersey have been arrested and charged in connection with the death of Kean Cabral, 25, of Warwick. He was found inside his home on April 3 as a result of a heroin overdose.
In custody are Shameik Byrd, 26, of Paterson, NJ, also known as “Homeboy,” along with Anthony Potts, 27, and his girlfriend, Noel Ferguson, 20, both of Warwick. They are all alleged drug dealers.
All three were arrested and charged in New Jersey with strict liability for a drug-induced death, a first-degree charge that carriers a prison sentence of 10 to 20 years.
Warwick Police initiated the investigation developing information that
Potts and Ferguson had allegedly sold Cabral the heroin that caused his
death, and they had been traveling to Paterson to purchase it.
They allegedly sold Cabral several glassine envelopes of heroin stamped “Trap Queen,” the same type of packaged drugs that were seized when the two were obtaining a new supply days after Cabral’s death.
