September 3, 2025

Two Semmes Men Indicted For Manslaugter in Separate Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

By Dale Hines
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News

September 3, 2025

SEMMES, AL. Two men from Semmes have been indicted for manslaughter charges relating to separate fentanyl overdoses according to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office.

19-year-old Kaleb Daniel Harden and 20-year-old Brayden Robert Hollie were indicted, each on one count of manslaughter.

According to the District Attorney’s Office, Harden was arrested in September of 2024 after deputies found a 17-year-old on Howells Ferry Road dead from a fentanyl overdose and Hollie was arrested a month later, in October, in connection with 18-year-old Jayce Ward’s overdose death. Police said that Ward was found at a home on Vickets Road.

Hollie was out on bond earlier this year when he was arrested in April 2025 on charges of third-degree domestic violence, use/possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance and second-degree possession of marijuana.

“These are not just numbers or statistics,” read a DA’s office Facebook post. “These are lives lost, families broken, and communities forever changed.

“This past Sunday marked Fentanyl Awareness Day, a solemn reminder of how dangerous and deadly this drug truly is.”