MONROE — A Middleton man is jailed on a $75,000 cash bond in connection to a suspected opioid overdose that killed a New Glarus resident.

Kerwin Lamont Harvey, 63, faces a charge of first-degree reckless homicide. The Class C felony carries a maximum sentence of 40 years.

Harvey was arrested April 9 in a business parking lot on Madison’s east side, less than 24 hours after the overdose death in New Glarus. He is suspected of supplying opioids to the person who died.  

New Glarus police and New Glarus EMS were called to a residence for a report of an unresponsive person at 11:56 a.m. April 8, and the patient was pronounced dead at the scene after lifesaving measures were unsuccessful, according to the Green County Sheriff’s Office.

Harvey made his initial appearance April 13 in Green County Circuit Court. Conditions of his bond, which was not posted, include no contact with the victim’s immediate family or a residence in the 500 block of 14th Avenue in New Glarus.

He is next in court for a preliminary hearing April 21. Wisconsin and federal court records show no criminal history for Harvey besides a misdemeanor conviction of driving without a valid license from over a decade ago.