Jurors found a Scandia man not guilty of providing drugs to a man who died of an overdose in the Chisago County jail last year.
John W. Hofer, 37, was acquitted on Thursday of third-degree murder in the death of Erik Nielsen, according to court records.
Nielsen died of a methamphetamine overdose in the jail's intake area on July 22, according to court documents. He had been arrested on a felony warrant during a traffic stop.
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