Pottstown man draws prison for role in overdose death
NORRISTOWN â A Pottstown man is on his way to state prison after he admitted to his role in the overdose death of another man who was found dead in a vehicle on a parking lot of an apartment complex in the borough. Javier Esteban Velez, 24, of the unit block of North Franklin Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 4 to 8 years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to a charge of drug delivery resulting in death in connection with the Oct. 29, 2019, fatal overdose of 38-year-old Matthew A. Surbrook. Other charges of possession with intent to deliver a contr...