Man charged with murder for allegedly selling fentanyl to overdose victim

A 36-year-old man charged with murder for allegedly selling fentanyl to a 19-year-old, who died of an overdose in 2020, had his arraignment postponed to Dec. 3 Friday, Nov. 19.Alvin Barrington Linton of Ontario was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of selling fentanyl to Javon Richard, who died from it November 2020, according to Riverside County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Ryan Marcuse.Linton was initially scheduled to appear at the Riverside Hall of Justice Friday to be arraigned on the murder charge but is now scheduled to appear for arraignment Dec. 3.Deputies responded to a report of an unresponsive man at 2:46 p.m. Nov. 9, 2020, in the 6400 block of Wells Springs Street, in Eastvale. They arrived to find Richard dead. Later investigations determined he died from a fentanyl ov
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