Joelle Blaser (Photo source: Brown County Jail)
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A woman charged with reckless homicide for allegedly delivering a fatal overdose of pills to her partner at a medical rehabilitation facility was ordered Friday to stand trial.
Joelle Blaser, 55, will enter a plea June 19 to one count first-degree reckless homicide for death of a man, identified in the criminal complaint by his initials, R.G.
A defense request to lower the $25,000 cash bond was also denied, court records show.
According to the criminal complaint, R.G. was found unresponsive Sept. 2 at the Green Bay Rehabilitation Center, 1110 Kepler Dr. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
A search of his phone led to messages exchanged with Blaser and a supplier about getting him some drugs.
According to the criminal complaint, Blaser admitted that before being kicked out of the hospital:
“(S)he left R.G. a Tylenol PM bottle containing Xanax and fentanyl. Initially she admitted to Xanax, but then upon further questioning stated, “Yeah, there was probably some (expletive) in there. I know there was.” I asked her if it was fentanyl and she responded, “More than likely.” Blaser described R.G. as going through withdrawals and telling her he needed something.”
R.G.’s death was caused by “the combined drug toxicity of ethanol, fentanyl, heroin, oxycodone, oxymorphone, and trazadone,” the complaint states.
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