Altoona man sentenced for selling heroin to man who suffered fatal overdose

HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County man was sentenced Thursday to 6 to 12 years in prison for selling heroin to a man who died from an overdose in 2015. A jury in February convicted Zachary Moore, 24, of possession with intent to deliver, criminal use of a communication facility and simple possession.

HOLLIDAYSBURG – A Blair County man was sentenced Thursday to 6 to 12 years in prison for selling heroin to a man who died from an overdose in 2015.

A jury in February convicted Zachary Moore, 24, of possession with intent to deliver, criminal use of a communication facility and simple possession.

Moore was also convicted of selling $75 worth of heroin to 22-year-old Jacob Willis, of Altoona, who died hours later of an overdose.

Moore has been in the Blair County Prison since his arrest by Greenfield Township police in February 2016.

Moore has been arrested more than a dozen times and has more than a dozen convictions.

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