Antigo man to be sentenced today in Merrill heroin death case | wausaudailyherald.com | Wausau Daily Herald

14:18 2009 at HAVEN in Merrill , 29 , Nicole Hedges , of Tomahawk , was found dead May 2 0 Comments

Antigo man to be sentenced today in Merrill heroin death case | wausaudailyherald.com | Wausau Daily Herald: "32-year-old Antigo man will be sentenced this morning on a homicide charge in connection with a woman who died from a heroin overdose last year at a Merrill domestic abuse shelter.Kevin Krugel pleaded guilty in February to a felony charge of first-degree reckless homicide. He faces up to a 40-year prison sentence.
Nicole Hedges, 29, of Tomahawk, was found dead May 2, 2009 at HAVEN in Merrill. Toxicology tests conducted on her blood showed she died of an acute overdose of heroin, according to a criminal complaint.
At a court hearing last June, Dominic Becerra, 32, of Antigo testified that he and Krugel drove from Antigo to Wausau to buy heroin. Becerra and Krugel then went to Merrill and met Hedges at Streeter Square Park, across the street from HAVEN, where Krugel and Hedges ingested the heroin, Becerra testified in June."