New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald and Pembroke Police Chief Dwayne Gilman announce the indictment of Morgen Chapman, age 31, of Concord for Acts Prohibited relating to the dispensing of the controlled drug fentanyl.

On April 21, 2017, Chapman was indicted by the Grand Jurors of Merrimack County sitting in Concord for dispensing fentanyl which caused the death of Violetta Monastyrskaya, age 21, on April 2, 2016. The Pembroke Police Department has been actively investigating this case since Monastyrskaya’s death. The charge carries a possible maximum sentence of life in state prison with the possibility of parole.

Chapman will be arraigned in Concord at the Merrimack County Superior Court on the morning of May 17, 2017.