The once NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard was out of drug rehab for just one day before being given an unprescribed narcotic pain pill by his younger brother before a night of clubbing. Drug-taking and heavy drinking resulted in his death, prosecutors alleged Friday.
A complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court said Aaron Boogaard(notes), 24, told police he gave his brother a single oxycodone the night before he found Derek Boogaard dead in their Minneapolis apartment May 13. Derek Boogaard, 28, died of what authorities ruled was a toxic mix of alcohol and drugs.
The younger Boogaard was charged Friday with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, a felony that also applies when narcotics are given away for free. He was also charged with interfering with the scene of a death for allegedly flushing the rest of his brother’s drug stash—a mix of oxycodone and related drugs—down the toilet before police arrived, the complaint alleged.
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