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Family Wants The Truth, Police Slow with Investigation 

(By pinayscandal, Pinoybee.com) 

NEARLY two months after the death of Cecile Megan Anderson, 19, a Filipino American from Dumont, N.J., authorities are still sorting through the details and the girl’s family is getting impatient with the pace of investigation. In what has been ruled by police as a drug overdose, Cecile passed away on June 1st, at Rowan University, which is located in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Bernie Wiesenfeld, spokesperson for the Gloucester County prosecutor’s office, says Cecile’s case has yet to be presented to a grand jury for the possibility of an indictment. The prosecutor’s office, Wiesenfeld added, is awaiting the toxicology reports from the state’s police laboratories before they can proceed. “Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as an expedited lab test,� Weisenfeld told Philippine News.

Wiesenfeld’s explanation for the delay is attributed to the fact that the New Jersey police laboratories have been unusually busy this summer due to a rash of heroin-related deaths, many of them involving the drug Fentanyl.

Criminal charges have been filed by the prosecutor’s office against Christopher McClish, 20, of Old Bridge, on two counts of possession, and two counts of distribution of narcotics. He is known to have been with Cecile on the night of her death. She died while on the campus of Rowan University after she attended a party with the defendant. Cecile passed away while she was with McClish in her parked car.

Cecile had been attending Raritan Valley Community College in Somerville, and was only three classes shy of transferring to Rowan University, where she was interested in pursuing a medical career.

Because of the delay, Cecile’s family has become increasingly dissatisfied with the direction of the investigation. Nelson Datu Anderson, Cecile’s father, says that it appears the defendant had planned out much of the evening’s events. Anderson, who is a Bay Area resident, says that through his own interviews with people who were with Cecile the night she died, he learned that the defendant used his daughter’s car to obtain some of the illegal drugs.

According to the National Drug Intelligence Center website (www.usdoj.gov), Fentanyl is a synthetic derivative of opium, and can be up to 50 times more potent than heroin. When mixed, the combination produces a euphoric but deadly high, especially for users who are new.

Since April of 2006, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reports that there have been 133 deaths in the state of New Jersey involving Fentanyl, which is used as a general anesthetic for pain relief.