Local News in Brief : Heroin Supplier Gets 2 Years in Friend’s Death
A31-year-old Sepulveda man was sentenced Monday to two years in state prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the drug-related death of a friend he had supplied with heroin.
Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Richard A. Adler rejected a defense plea for probation and ordered Richard Mark Yarchover to state prison. Yarchover faced a maximum of four years in prison.
Yarchover admitted to police that he provided heroin to Stanley Blair, 37, of Canoga Park, who collapsed minutes after injecting the drug at Yarchover’s apartment May 23.
Yarchover said he dragged Blair’s body out of the apartment and dumped it in an alley, then made an anonymous telephone call to police.
He will be eligible for parole in about a year.
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