Man charged in drug death of girlfriend

Published 9:59 am Wednesday, February 18, 2015

DULUTH — A man accused of supplying drugs to a woman who died in 2013 is charged in St. Louis County. 

Prosecutors said 27-year-old Bryan Hodapp gave a synthetic drug to his girlfriend, Krystal Wickland. The 21-year-old Duluth woman began vomiting and convulsing after ingesting the LSD-type drug and died at a hospital in Ely.

Hodapp is charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He’s being held in the St. Louis County Jail on $200,000 bond.

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