3 Bowling Green residents accused of providing heroin to overdose victims

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- The Bowling Green Police Department has arrested three individuals who are accused of providing heroin to two men who died from an overdose.

According to police, on November 22, 2019, Joshua Kinkade died from a heroin overdose at a residence on Parkhurst Drive in Bowling Green and two days later, Louisville Metro police responded to the death of Matthew Dobring, who also died due to an apparent heroin overdose.

Detectives from the Bowling Green Police Department and the Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force say they were able to link Stephanie Silvano, Scott Bernauer and Tracy Boyd to the heroin Kinkade and Dobring used, ultimately causing their deaths.

Tod Young with the Bowling Green Warren County Drug Task Force says dangerous drugs had already made their way into the community and now they are now seeing the effect.

“Seeing heroin and fentanyl arrive here in Bowling Green, we know that when we started seeing it, eventually we would start seeing some deaths associated with it. And, it has just come to fruition,” said Young.

Silvano, Bernauer and Boyd are all charged with two counts of manslaughter and first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.

All three are lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail.

“If you sell drugs to someone and they die from an overdose, then you are guilty of manslaughter,” said Young.