Derek Boogaard's brother charged

[Forkboy]

MINNEAPOLIS -- NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard had been out of drug rehab for just one day before his younger brother gave him an unprescribed narcotic pain pill at the start of an evening of night-clubbing, drug-taking and heavy drinking that resulted in his death, prosecutors alleged Friday.

A complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court said Aaron Boogaard, 24, told police he gave his brother a single oxycodone the night before he found Derek Boogaard dead in their Minneapolis apartment May 13. Derek Boogaard, 28, died of what authorities ruled was a toxic mix of alcohol and drugs.

The younger Boogaard was charged Friday with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, a felony that also applies when narcotics are given away for free. He was also charged with interfering with the scene of a death for allegedly flushing the rest of his brother's drug stash -- a mix of oxycodone and related drugs -- down the toilet before police arrived, the complaint alleged.

"This is a very tragic situation," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman told reporters. "Most of us know someone who's had problems, troubles with alcohol or drugs. And most of us know that a person, the day they get out of treatment, shouldn't receive for any reason the drugs that put him in treatment in the first place."

http://espn.go.com/boston/nhl/story/_/id/6793134/derek-boogaard-brother-charged-providing-drugs-player-death

[joeybee12]

1. What a d*ck...giving your own troubled brother drugs...

Again, what a dick.

[Iggo]

2. Sounds like they were both troubled.

I lay this one on Derek.