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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v Larry Shroyer
Blue drug packets connect dealer to overdose death
| Crime | On November 13, 2015, George Duke, Jr. died in his bedroom after overdosing on a mixture of heroin and butyryl fentanyl. |
| Evidence | Three blue drug packets were collected as evidence. |
| DNA | The Pennsylvania State Police crime laboratory processed the drug packets, and developed DNA mixture data. |
| Match | The lab couldn’t fully interpret the mixtures. Their methods needed more DNA to analyze the minor component. So Bradford Police Chief Chris Lucco contacted Cybergenetics for a TrueAllele computer analysis. |
| TrueAllele | The computer connected the three blue packets to drug dealer Larry Shroyer with a match statistic of a thousand. Only 1 in ten thousand people would match as strongly by chance. |
| Cybergenetics | On October 29, 2019, DNA analyst Jennifer Bracamontes testified before a McKean County jury about the TrueAllele results. |
| Outcome | On November 1, Mr. Shroyer was found guilty of all drug charges, recklessly endangering another person, and fleeing from the police. President Judge John Pavlock sentenced him to serve 53 to 106 months in prison. |
Media
- Shroyer asks for trial in drug death case The Bradford Era
- Shroyer to serve 53 to 106 months for drug death The Bradford Era