Waukesha Police Investigating Potential Heroin Overdose Death

The death of a 24-year-old man is under investigation by the Waukesha Police Department with the preliminary indications pointing to an unintentional heroin overdose, said Waukesha Police Lt. Ron Oremus.

Waukesha police were called at 1:15 p.m. Saturday to the 200 block of Jasper Lane for a report that the male was deceased, according to the police department call log.

Oremus said it could be six to eight weeks before the police department receives toxicology reports from the Waukesha County Medical Examiner’s Office to make the final determination.

“It is always hard to say,” Oremus said. “We can’t say with 100 percent certainty until the toxicology reports come back.”

Overdose deaths are on the rise in Waukesha County, according to a recent presentation given by Waukesha County Sheriff’s Capt. Charles Wood.

The Waukesha County Medical Examiner’s Office investigated 31 fatal overdose deaths in 2010 and 29 of those deaths were from illegal drug use,

“The unfortunate thing is we are trending to have a new record of deaths each year,” Wood said.