NORFOLK, Va. – A 29-year-old Virginia Beach man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for distributing heroin that ultimately led to a 23-year-old woman’s overdose death.
According to court documents, Gregory Hatt sold heroin, cocaine, and other narcotics out of a rented house in Virginia Beach from December 2014 through July 2015.
On Dec. 26, 2014, Hatt called Monica Beaudry, a 23-year-old Virginia Beach woman, to come to his house for what he described as “a birthday present.”
Hatt gave Beaudry heroin and she subsequently displayed signs of an overdose by foaming at the mouth, exhibiting troubled breathing, and losing consciousness.
Others at the house told Hatt to call 911, but he refused.
Approximately 40 minutes after displaying symptoms of overdose, Beaudry was driven to Chesapeake Regional Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.
Hatt continued to distribute heroin from his residence and from other Virginia Beach locations for the following seven months.
In February 2015, he distributed heroin to an active duty U.S. Navy sailor stationed on an aircraft carrier in Norfolk. That sailor and another sailor on the carrier also overdosed. Both sailors were immediately treated by medical personnel and survived.
On July 24, 2015, law enforcement agents with Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and officers with the Virginia Beach Police Department executed a search warrant on Hatt’s residence and recovered quantities of heroin, cocaine, various drug paraphernalia, and multiple firearms, including a loaded sawed-off shotgun.