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Dover heroin death ID'd as teen from Rochester

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DOVER, N.H. - Dover Police say the man who died on Monday of a suspected heroin overdose is a teenager from Rochester.

Ryan Meinhert was found dead at the Cricketbrook Apartments on Henry Law Avenue where he was found after a rescue call came in midmorning.

The official cause of death has not been released but police say it appears to be some form of heroin or fentanyl overdose.

Fentanyl is an extremely powerful pain killer often mixed with heroin by traffickers.

The death was one of two suspected heroin overdoses on Monday, including another in the Central Avenue McDonald's parking lot.

Police responded to the Cricketbrook Apartments incident around 10:20 a.m. for the report of an unconscious male, but it was too late.

The first incident came just about five minutes earlier for an unconscious man in the McDonald's parking lot at 912 Central Ave. First responders were able to revive the 25-year-old male victim with Narcan, an oft-used opiate antidote carried by most rescue departments and now many police departments as well.

The man was transported to Wentworth-Douglass and is expected to recover, a Dover Police press release said.

According to police, the number of suspected heroin or fentanyl overdoses in Dover this year now stands at 33, with five fatalities. In all of 2014, there were 45 overdoses with six fatalities.

Anyone with information about heroin or fentanyl sales is asked to call the Dover Police Department at 603-742-4646. Anonymous tips may be called into the Dover Crimeline at 603-749-6000 or via www.dovernhcrimeline.org.

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