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Rochester woman indicted in bartender's drug overdose death

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Nikole Coe, right, was indicted in the drug overdose death of Sarah Brooks. (Courtesy photo, Brooks; Rochester Police photo, Coe)

DOVER - A Rochester woman has been indicted in the February drug overdose death of a beloved local bartender and mother of two.

Nikole Coe, 24, of 59 Lafayette St., Apt. A, faces a maximum of life in prison if convicted on a charge of acts prohibited-death resulting.

According to her indictment, Coe gave "fentanyl to Sarah Brooks, and she subsequently ingested said controlled drug resulting in her death."

Brooks, a graduate of Farmington High and resident of Rochester, had worked as a bartender and server at both the former Slim's in Rochester and Redhook Brewery in Portsmouth.

She died Feb. 28 at the age of 46.

Coe's rapsheet includes an arrest for heroin possession in January 2016 after a traffic stop on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth and a credit card fraud charge out of Portsmouth in May.

The Strafford County grand jury indictments were handed down last Thursday and released today.

An indictment is not an indication of guilt, rather that enough evidence has been produced to warrant a trial.

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