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Derek Boogaard's brother gave Rangers enforcer oxycodone, flushed evidence down toilet: police
Derek Boogaard's brother gave Rangers enforcer oxycodone, flushed evidence down toilet: police
BY Jesse Spector
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Friday, July 22nd 2011, 4:24 PM
Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard, pictured in action against the Maple Leafs at the Garden in October 2010, dies in May after mixing alcohol and oxycondone.
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Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard, pictured in action against the Maple Leafs at the Garden in October 2010, dies in May after mixing alcohol and oxycondone.
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More details have emerged about the night Derek Boogaard died, a day after his brother Aaron was arrested on felony drug charges in Minneapolis.
The charging document, which outlines the case against 24-year-old Aaron Boogaard, was posted Friday on the website of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and tells a chilling tale of the events leading up to Derek Boogaard's death on May 13, which was ruled by the Hennepin County medical examiner to be caused by an accidental combination of alcohol and oxycondone toxicity.
"Officers learned that the Defendant (Aaron) was living with D.L.B. (Derek)," the report reads. "The Defendant told officers that D.L.B. and he had been out with friends the night before. The Defendant stated that he had provided D.L.B. with one pill containing Oxycodone, a schedule II controlled substance, before going out to several clubs on May 12, 2011. The Defendant told officers when he gave the pill to D.L.B. that he believed D.L.B. was not in pain. The Defendant said that it appeared D.L.B. was celebrating and intended to go on a 'binger.'
"The Defendant informed officers that he had been holding Oxycontin and Percocet for D.L.B. and that those pills did not come from a doctor. The Defendant told officers that he believed D.L.B. had the pills shipped in from New York. The Defendant also told officers that D.L.B. had been released from chemical dependency treatment the day prior to the Defendant giving D.L.B. the pill.
"The Defendant said that on the day D.L.B. was found deceased, the Defendant left the apartment to pick up a brother at the airport. Upon returning home, D.L.B. was found unresponsive. A call to 911 was made to summon assistance. Prior to the arrival of emergency personnel, the Defendant stated that he destroyed the remainder of the Percocet and Oxycontin pills he had been holding for D.L.B. by flushing them down the toilet."
It is not clear how Derek Boogaard would have had pills shipped to him from New York. The Rangers enforcer played 22 games in the first season of a four-year contract before suffering a concussion in a fight with Ottawa's Matt Carkner in December. While working his way back into playing shape after a very difficult recovery from the concussion, Boogaard left the Rangers to get treatment for his addiction, with the full support of the organization.
Although Boogaard's death was the result of substance abuse, questions do remain about what role his life as a hockey fighter may have played. The Boogaard family donated Derek's brain for research at Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, and the results of the work there are still pending. The BU scientists found last year that Bob Probert, an NHL enforcer from 1985-2002, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he died of heart failure at the age of 45, and cases of CTE have been found in more than 20 dead former pro football players. The degenerative brain condition can only be diagnosed posthumously.
"(Concussions would) not necessarily (cause) the kind of problems that would lead to death," Dr. Joseph Maroon, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh, told the Daily News in May, just before the autopsy results were released. "It could lead to impaired memory, impaired judgment, impaired personality and impaired decision-making. All of those are things that can occur with multiple concussions. But not death. It can lead to suicide, it can lead to toxic substances, it can lead to addictive behavior and all of those things, of course, can lead to death."
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