Joliet's Heroin Homicide Defendant Surrenders To Police

Joliet IL

07 March, 2022

1:05 PM

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JOLIET, IL — On Sunday night, 30-year-old Joliet drug-induced homicide defendant Dakota Smith turned himself in at the Joliet Police Department in connection with his Feb. 24 indictment. Smith is charged with causing the March 7, 2019, heroin overdose death of 26-year-old Joliet resident Eddie Strysik, a graduate of Plainfield Central High School who played baseball and football for the school. Joliet police arrest logs indicate Smith was booked into custody at 11 p.m. By midnight, he was booked into the Will County Jail where he will remain until he posts 10 percent of his $250,000 bail. Smith resides in the 3100 block of Joliet's September Drive. Smith's three felony charges are: drug-induced homicide and two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. Will County's indictment states that on March 6, 2019, Smith knowingly and unlawfully delivered fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl to Edward Strysik "and Edward Strysik thereafter injected, inhaled, absorbed or ingested any amount of that fentanyl and fentanyl acetyl into his body and said injection, inhalation, absorption or ingestion of the fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl caused the death of Edward Strysik." The drug-inducted homicide charges against Smith resulted from a Will County Sheriff's Office investigation.