A 55-year-old man was arrested and charged on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, for supplying the drugs that led to a woman’s overdose death in Middletown Township last year.

Thomas Joseph Hall, of Warminster Township, was charged with drug delivery resulting in death, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, criminal use of a communication facility, involuntary manslaughter, recklessly endangering another person, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Daniel Baranoski who remanded him to Bucks County Correctional Facility under $500,000 bail.

On June 4, officers with the Middletown Township Police Department were dispatched to a home in the 900 block of Poplar Street in Langhorne, Middletown Township. The 911 caller reported that his girlfriend had passed away. Police and paramedics located the victim in the bedroom and confirmed that she was deceased. She was identified as 57-year-old Gisela Leair.

Investigators seized items that included Leair’s cellphone, three clear plastic bottles that contained methadone, two clear baggies and a bowl that contained multiple tablets. Those tablets were identified as lorazepam and oxycodone.

The three bottles of methadone were prescribed to a Thomas Hall and a warning label on the bottles advised, “may be fatal to adults.”

During the investigation, police learned that Hall attempted to enter Poplar Street home through a locked door and was confronted by Leair’s boyfriend. When the boyfriend told Hall that Leair had died, Hall responded, “I didn’t give her anything,” according to a criminal complaint.

An autopsy determined that Leair’s cause of death was drug intoxication with methadone, lorazepam and other drugs found in her system.

An examination of the victim’s phone found she had a conversation with Hall the day before she died. In the conversation, she asked for oxycodone or Percocet, and Hall offered her methadone.

In the conversation, Hall agreed to meet her that night. Cellphone data records indicated that Hall was in the area of Leair’s home on June 3 between 7:39 p.m. and 8 p.m.

This case was investigated by the Middletown Township Police Department, led by Detective Jacob Gallagher, with assistance from the Bucks County Detectives and the Warrington Township Police Department. Deputy District Attorney Thomas C. Gannon is assigned for prosecution.

Media Contact: Manuel Gamiz Jr., 215.348.6298, mgamiz@buckscounty.org

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