John A. Arnder gets year in prison for selling drugs to man who died
The Times-Reporter NEW PHILADELAPHIA A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to a year in prison for selling powerful opioids to a man who died shortly afterward. Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Judge Elizabeth Lehigh Thomakos sentenced John A. Arnder on Wednesday for selling carfentanil and fentanyl to Johnathan D. Brinkman on June 20, 2019. Brinkman, 23, of New Philadelphia, died the same day. "He was a great child ... had a heart of gold," Brinkman's mother Carla Pringle said in court. Pringle asked the judge to hold Arnder accountable. "He took my son on his sister's birthday," she said....