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Charges filed in overdose death of body builder

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Jacob Castro White's Facebook page was a tribute to the 23-year-old being an award-winning bodybuilder.

Now, it's a memorial as friends share messages that he rest in peace.

Lorain Police told newsnet5.com White overdosed and died on the painkiller fentanyl.

On Wednesday morning, police raided a house on Garden Court where they said they found more drugs.

Police arrested Russell Davis.

Detective Buddy Sivert said Davis sold White the fentanyl, passing it off as heroin, because fentanyl is cheaper.

"We have to do something to try and stop the overdoses," Sivert said.

Instead of only charging Davis with drug trafficking, Lorain Police charged Davis with a much more serious crime, involuntary manslaughter which could mean up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Davis was already on parole for drug dealing.

"Fentanyl is a lot stronger than heroin, and if you're used to doing a certain amount of heroin and you think you're doing and it's pure fentanyl chances are it's going to kill you," Sivert said.

The Lorain County Coroner's office said there were 65 fatal overdoses all of last year in Lorain County. There were 30 in just the first three months of this year.

At that pace there would be 120 overdose deaths this year. Of the 35 drug overdoses in Lorain County this year, nine have happened in Lorain and nine in Elyria.