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A 41-year-old Bartlett man already being held for a prior narcotics arrest has been charged with drug-induced homicide for allegedly providing drugs to a 30-year-old woman who overdosed July 6 in her Campton Hills home.

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According to a Sheriff’s Office report, Campton Hills police officers and sheriff’s deputies reported were dispatched to 41W032 Palomino Dr. in Campton Hills for a report of a female subject found deceased inside the residence.

Campton Hills police and members of the Kane County Heroin Initiative Task Force determined that Katherine Gehlharr, 30, died as a result of an overdose of heroin and fentanyl.

Joseph Pryor, 41, of 2071 Westridge Boulevard, Bartlett, was charged Aug. 17 with one count of drug induced homicide.  It is alleged that Pryor provided the drugs to the deceased. Officials said Pryor was in custody at the Kane County Adult Corrections Center due to a prior narcotics-related arrest.

The Kane County Heroin Initiative is a Kane County based multi-jurisdictional task force made of up federal, state, county, and local law enforcement official’s whose purpose is to combat the opioid epidemic in our community. The task force is focused on education, enforcement and treatment as a three pronged approach to attack this epidemic.

The charges against Pryor are not proof of guilt. A defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial in which it is the state’s burden to prove his or her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

SOURCE: Kane County Sheriff’s Office news release