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Testimony reveals Tarmey had been using 2 years

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Jazzmyn Rood at Rochester District Court probable cause hearing on Thursday. (Union Leader photo)

ROCHESTER - Eve Tarmey's mom said her 17-year-old daughter had been using heroin for two years prior to her death Oct. 17, a Rochester Police detective testified during the mom's probable cause hearing on Thursday.

The lone witness to testify during the hearing was Rochester Police Detective Chris Mangum, who told the court Jazzmyn Rood said she "was almost 100 percent" sure her boyfriend Mark Ross had given Tarmey heroin the night she died inside a Rivera Motel room.

Mangum testified that Rood told him Ross likely gave her daughter the drugs while she went into the bathroom to fix her hair and makeup, apparently because it upset her to see her daughter snort heroin.

According to the detective, Tarmey, Ross and Leslie Aberle, of Salisbury, had driven to Methuen, Mass., on Oct. 16 to drop Tarmey off to visit her boyfriend, whom they were supposed to meet in the parking lot of the Market Basket there.

After the boyfriend didn't show they went to pick up two grams of heroin for $80 and then returned to the motel where all of them except Tarmey got high.

Then Tarmey became distraught over not meeting up with her date and wanted to get high, too, Mangum testified, prompting Ross to tell Rood to go to the bathroom and fix her hair. Aberle then broke off a piece of the heroin, and Ross put it on the table, telling Tarmey to "do what she normally does," Mangum testified.

Tarmey crushed up the heroin, and snorted it with a straw, according to a police affidavit.
Mangum said that after Tarmey snorted the heroin, Aberle left, and Rood, Ross and Tarmey watched TV until they fell asleep.
When Ross got up to use the bathroom around 3:30 a.m., he found Tarmey slumped over in bed and knew she was dead, according to a police affidavit.
Public Defender Sarah Landres argued there's no evidence to support charges of conspiracy to possess a controlled drug and reckless conduct, because Rood did not travel to Massachusetts with Ross, Aberle and Tarmey and did not help to pay for the heroin.
Likewise, Landres said, "Leaving the room is not reckless behavior."
Instead, Landres argued, Ross and Aberle giving Tarmey the drugs, and Tarmey taking them, is what caused the Spaulding High senior's death.
During her arguments, Tarmey's grandmother cried out, "She's her mother!" before being asked to leave the courtroom.
During much of Mangum's testimony, Tarmey's father, Troy Tarmey, who has attended every hearing regarding his daughter's death, also cried.

No decision as to whether the case will move forward for possible indictment was rendered by the judge, who said they would take the arguments under advisement.

No timeframe was given for a decision.

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