Ryan Brubaker
Police charged a Warwick Township man Thursday with drug delivery after he exchanged drugs with another young man, who later died of an overdose from a variety of drugs.
Ryan C. Brubaker, 20, of Lititz, faces charges stemming from the drug exchange in September.
Brubaker is the son of state Sen. Mike Brubaker, a Republican from Warwick Township.
The state attorney general's office is prosecuting the case against Brubaker after Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman referred the investigation there due to a conflict of interest based on his political association with Mike Brubaker and his personal friendship with him.
According to Ryan Brubaker's arrest warrant affidavit, he admitted to police that he exchanged drugs with Andrew Glassmyer, 21, on Sept. 24, 2011.
Glassmyer told another friend that he took some of the drugs the following day. Glassmyer was found dead at his Lititz home the next day, according to the affidavit.
Glassmyer's death was ruled accidental. An autopsy was performed and the cause of his death was determined to be related to "multiple drug toxicity," according to Brubaker's affidavit.
After reviewing the toxicology reports, prosecutors concluded that drug delivery was the correct charge, said Heather Adams, senior deputy attorney general with the Drug Strike Force section of the state office.
"The cause of death was multiple drug toxicity," she said. "It did not support filing charges of drug delivery resulting in death."
According to the affidavit, Brubaker told police he gave Glassmyer 17 Vicodin pills from a family member's prescription bottle in exchange for seven Xanax pills while the two were driving around in a car.
Vicodin is a painkiller. Xanax is used to treat anxiety and panic attacks.
Police found numerous prescription drug bottles and loose pills in the room where Glassmyer was found after his death, according to the affidavit.
One of Glassmyer's friends told police that he had seen him the night before he died and that Glassmyer was "pretty messed up on Vicodins and alcohol," according to the affidavit.
Glassmyer told the friend he had taken two Vicodin pills he had received from Brubaker, the friend told police.
