By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan 3 (Reuters) - An Anchorage manaccused of injecting a 14-year-old girl with heroin wasindicted for manslaughter on Tuesday, five days after she diedfrom an overdose, an Anchorage police spokesman said.
Sean Warner, 26, was indicted on one count of manslaughterby a state grand jury, Anchorage Police Lieutenant Dave Parkersaid, adding that an additional charge could still be filedagainst Warner.
Warner was arrested last month on drug-related chargesafter 14-year-old Jena Dolstad, a high school student, wasfound overdosed and lying on Warner's bed in her own vomit,according to a charging document.
She died in a local hospital, where she never regainedconsciousness and was kept on life support for days, Anchoragepolice said.
Dolstad had been at a gathering at Warner's house theprevious night and had asked to try heroin, but was unwillingto inject herself, the charging document said. Warner theninjected the drug, but warned her of the dangers of addiction,according to a witness account included in the court papers.
When Dolstad was found the next morning, Warner waitedseveral hours before calling for assistance, the chargingdocument said, adding that he also tried to hide heroin-relatedevidence.
Warner is a former Navy medic who served in Afghanistan,his aunt and uncle told local KTUU-TV, saying that Warner hadreturned from Afghanistan using heroin and suffering frompost-traumatic stress.
Warner had been held in the Anchorage jail since Dec. 25 onthe original charges filed against him, including drugdelivery, contributing to delinquency of a minor, evidencetampering and theft. (Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Cynthia Johnston)