Deadly fentanyl overdoses could rise in Halifax during the pandemic

When Halifax police warned the public in June about a potentially deadly type of fentanyl on the street that looks like sidewalk chalk, they didn't mention they were looking to pin Tyrone Zammit's overdose death in a Bedford motel room on someone else.  

Det. Const. Trudi McCulloch wanted a warrant to examine Zammit's mobile phone because she is investigating the 38-year-old's demise as a case of criminal negligence causing death. 

Zammit had arrived at the Esquire Motel on June 16, the detective wrote in what’s known in legal and policing circles as an information to obtain a warrant. 

“He was leaving Yarmouth and driving to Toronto to see his father,” McCulloch said in the sworn document. 

By Chris Lambie