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Ross, Aberle face 20 to life as feds take over case

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From left, Jazzmyn Rood, Mark Ross, Leslie Aberle (Courtesy photos)

CONCORD, N.H. - Federal prosecutors moved swiftly on Monday taking over prosecution in the case of a Rochester mother accused in the October drug overdose death of her daughter in a Rochester motel room.

The mother's boyfriend, in whose motel room the death occurred, along with another acquaintance were arraigned on federal charges in U.S. District Court Monday afternoon and held without bail pending an April trial.

Rood's boyfriend, Mark Ross, 41, of Rochester; and Leslie Aberle, 31, of Salisbury, Mass., were both charged with intentionally distributing a mixture containing a detectable amount of fentanyl.

They face a minimum of 20 years-to-life in federal prison if convicted.

Meanwhile, Jazzmyn Rood, 41, of Rochester, the mother of Eve Tarmey, the Spaulding High senior who died Oct. 17, was charged with "misprision" of a felony, which accuses a person of being aware a crime has been committed and does not report to law enforcement also taking action to conceal it. If convicted she faces a maximum of three years in federal prison. Rood will be arraigned later today, at which time her bail will be discussed and perhaps amended, said Donald Feith, 1st Assistant U.S.Attorney. Rood was being held on $10,000 cash.

Testimony at a probable cause hearing in November revealed that Rood "was almost 100 percent" sure her boyfriend gave Tarmey heroin the night she died inside a Rivera Motel room.

A Rochester detective 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 Aberle 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, the detective 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."

Tarmey crushed up the heroin, and snorted it with a straw, according to a police affidavit.
The detective 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.

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