Hancock Resident Arrested in Briggs Street Overdose Death
City-Times Staff
Stevens Point Police have arrested a man from Hancock in connection with the death of UWSP student Jordan Peterson.
Erik E. Olsen, 26, was taken into custody shortly after midnight Wednesday morning. Charges of 1st degree reckless homicide were filed on Thursday in Portage County Circuit Court.
Olsen remains in the Portage County Jail today.
Jordan Peterson, a 21 y ear-old senior at UWSP, was found dead in his residence on Briggs Street November 17. A subsequent autopsy determined Peterson died of a heroin overdose.
Law enforcement allege Olsen supplied the heroin to Peterson the same day he was found dead by his roommate.