FLORENCE, WI— A Kingsford man has been arrested in connection with a Florence County, Wisconsin drug death.
On April 10, the Florence County Sheriff's Office Emergency Dispatch Center received a call that a man was slumped over the driver’s side window of a vehicle in Florence Township’s Vagabond Park. Deputies administered Narcan, but 42-year-old John Edwards of St. Germain, Wisconsin was pronounced dead of an overdose.
Following an investigation by the Florence County Sheriff's Office, the Dickinson County K.I.N.D team, the Oneida County Sheriff's Office, and the Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigations, Mark Johnson, 37, of Kingsford was arrested. He’s charged with first-degree reckless homicide-delivery of drugs, manufacture/delivery of meth, and manufacture/delivery of fentanyl.
Johnson remains lodged in the Florence County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
