Testimony reveals Tarmey had been using 2 years
Staff reports
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. 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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