The third suspect in the drug overdose death of a Tamaqua woman has been caught and taken to the Schuylkill County prison in Pottsville.

Kyle Jacob Merenda, 22, of Barnesville, was taken into custody on Monday in Tresckow, Carbon County, by state police from the Hazleton barracks. He was then turned over to troopers from the Frackville barracks.Merenda, Jonathan James Seekins, 33, of Coaldale; and Melanie Lynn Kropp, 24, of Mahanoy City, have been charged in the death of Alexandria Sienkiewicz, 23. Sienkiewicz’s body was found on April 2, 2016, in her bedroom by her mother.Troopers have been looking for Merenda since March 6 when arrest warrants were issued for the three. Seekins and Kropp were arrested on March 6.Merenda was arraigned before on-call District Judge James Ferrier, of Orwigsburg, and jailed after failing to post $20,000 straight case bail. He has been charged with drug delivery resulting in death, delivery of a controlled substance, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity, criminal use of a communication facility and possession of a controlled substance.Seekins is charged with drug delivery resulting in death, criminal solicitation — delivery of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance. He is initially committed to the county prison in lieu of $25,000 straight cash bail but has since been bonded out.Kropp is charged with criminal solicitation — delivery of a controlled substance, criminal use of a communication facility and possession of a controlled substance. She is free on $5,000 unsecured bail.According to a criminal complaint filed by trooper Joseph W. Hall, the lead investigator out of the Frackville barracks, the circumstances surrounding Sienkiewicz’s death began to unfold a few minutes after 11 a.m. on April 2, when Tamaqua police officer Corey Herring responded to 215 Bowe St. for an overdose.Tamaqua Emergency Medical Services took Sienkiewicz to St. Luke’s Miners Campus in Coaldale, where she was pronounced dead.Herring found an uncapped syringe filled with clear fluid on a shelf above Sienkiewicz’s bed; scattered on the bed were waxed paper packets marked with an apple symbol on the front.On Aug. 31, 2016, Hall, law enforcement officials and Tammy and John Sienkiewicz met with Schuylkill County Coroner Dr. David Moylan, who told them Alex had died of acute fentanyl toxicity. Fentanyl is a powerful narcotic painkiller.The next day, Tamaqua Police Chief Rick Weaver turned the case over to state police.The drug buyAccording to Hall’s documents, Tammy and John Sienkiewicz said their daughter had been with Seekins and Kropp the day before her death.Hall obtained records from Kropp’s cellphone that showed a call from Merenda to Kropp at 10:21 p.m. April 1, and from Kropp to Merenda at 1:25 p.m. April 2.Hall and trooper Michael Marinchak interviewed Kropp on Oct, 21. She told the troopers she picked up Sienkiewicz on April 1, and they wanted to buy heroin.But they had no money, so they went to Seekins’ house because he had an iPhone he was willing to sell. Kropp posted pictures of the phone on an online yard sale site, and they sold it to a Hazleton woman for $120.Kropp told the troopers either Sienkiewicz or Seekins mentioned getting heroin from Merenda, known as “Kilo.”Kropp drove them to Merenda’s house, where Seekins gave Merenda the $120 in exchange for what the three thought was heroin. They went back to Seekins’ house, where Seekins gave Kropp 10 bags of the drug for driving, and gave five bags to Sienkiewicz.Kropp and Sienkiewicz drove back to Tamaqua, where Sienkiewicz met with a friend, Ryan McDermott. They drove around for about an hour, smoking marijuana.McDermott then dropped off Sienkiewicz at her house, and Kropp at her car.He and Sienkiewicz texted back and forth until about 2:30 a.m.The next morning, Kropp received a call that the ambulance was at Sienkiewicz’s house, and that she had died from an overdose.