Agreement leads to sentencing in overdose death


Connor Rusin in an undated photo taken when he was in high school and playing football. Photo courtesy Cheryl Rusin

BRATTLEBORO- Dalton Kissell, one of two men who sold fentanyl-laced heroin resulting in the overdose death of Wilmington resident Connor Rusin, has been sentenced to 40 months to 12 years in prison. 
The sentencing is the result of an agreement in which Kissell pleaded guilty to dispensing a regulated drug with death resulting, according to Windham County State’s Attorney Tracy Shriver.  Several other charges in the case were dropped as part of the agreement.  


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