{"id":112733,"date":"2026-02-13T04:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112733\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:38:24","slug":"drug-strike-force-arrest-bensalem-man-for-supplying-fentanyl-that-led-to-womans-overdose-death-bucks-county-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112733\/","title":{"rendered":"DRUG STRIKE FORCE ARREST BENSALEM MAN FOR SUPPLYING FENTANYL THAT LED TO WOMAN&#8217;S OVERDOSE DEATH \u2022 Bucks County, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old man was charged on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, with supplying the drugs that led to a woman&#8217;s overdose death in July at a Tullytown recovery house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Derby Lavender, of Bensalem, was charged with drug delivery resulting in death, criminal use of a communication facility, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, involuntary manslaughter and possession of a controlled substance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Frank W. Peranteau and was sent to Bucks County Correctional Facility under $1 million bail, 10 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His arrest follows an investigation by Detectives with the Bucks County District Attorney&#8217;s Office Drug Strike Force that began following the overdose death of 25-year-old Nikki Lee Silva on July 2, 2021. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old man was charged on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, with supplying the drugs that led to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-112733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}