CARRBORO, NC -- On June 27, 2023, the Carrboro Police Department responded to a residence on Westbrook Drive for a cardiac arrest. Upon arrival, officers discovered the victim, Serguei Ndinga Momo, 21, deceased. An autopsy determined that Ndinga Momo died of a drug overdose. As a result of the investigation into this incident, Jerimiah Hargrove, 20, of Selma, was charged with Death by Distribution and Selling a Schedule II Controlled Substance. Hargrove was arrested on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, and confined in the Wayne County Jail under an $80,000 bond.
Hargrove is charged under the Death by Distribution statute (link below) as the investigation revealed that he sold a qualifying controlled substance to Ndinga Momo and that substance was the proximate cause of Ndinga Momo’s death.
If you suspect someone is in an overdose state, call 911 immediately. North Carolina’s Good Samaritan Law (link below) provides protections to someone in an overdose state and the 911 caller if certain conditions are met. The Carrboro Police Department has carried naloxone, an opioid antagonist, since 2014 and had the first two law enforcement reversals of an opioid overdose in the state in 2015. The police department is committed to providing life-saving care in these situations. A link to behavioral health resources for people living with substance use and other challenges is listed below.
