Teen was given fatal drug dose by mom’s boyfriend

She was found dead October 17 at the Riviera Motel in Rochester.

Tarmey was living in the New Hampshire motel room on October 17 and sharing a bed with her mother, Jazzmyn Rood, 41, and her mother’s boyfriend, Mark Ross, 41, police said. He told investigators that he handed the drugs to Leslie Aberle, who is also charged in Tarmey’s death.

Ross and Rood were arraigned Friday morning.

A toxicology report determined Tarmey died of fentanyl intoxication, and ruled her death as accidental, according to police.

On October 17, Ross, Aberle, and Tarmey traveled to Methuen where Tarmey was supposed to meet and stay with a man she met on Facebook, police said. Fentanyl, a painkiller, is often mistaken for heroin and is far more potent. Aberle reached into her bra and “broke off” a piece of heroin and told Ross to give it to Tamrey to “calm her down”.

He’s been charged with dispensing a controlled drug with death resulting and other charges, according to police. Also before calling 911, he first called his alleged dealer, identified in records as “Miguel”, and threatened to kill him if he had sold him a bad batch of drugs; deleted texts from his phone about the drug deal; and waited for a while because he couldn’t wake Rood up.

Rood was arraigned via video in a Rochester court on two felonies of conspiracy to possess a controlled drug and reckless conduct as well as a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child. She faces up to seven years in prison on each of the two felony charges she’s facing.

Ross said nothing in court Friday.

Police add there’s an arrest warrant for a MA woman, whom they describe as an acquaintance.