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An undercover officer remembered shaking with nerves moments after Jordan Yarmey got into her truck on the day of an investigation’s last drug buy.

Yarmey, normally upbeat, had sold her drugs on two prior occasions, the officer said. But on that day in January 2016, he was strange, emotionless. A man had overdosed and died in his apartment after using drugs, the officer recalled Yarmey telling her. Police descended on the building after the body was discovered in a hallway.

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“It was something you just don’t expect to hear,” the RCMP officer testified Tuesday on the second day of Yarmey’s trial — the first Edmonton case in which manslaughter charges were laid in a fentanyl overdose death.

The evidence was heard during a voir dire in the judge-alone trial — a type of trial within a trial held to determine the admissibility of evidence.

Yarmey is charged in the death of 33-year-old Szymon Kalich. According to an agreed statement of facts, Kalich had been discharged from an Edmonton addiction recovery centre on Jan. 24, 2016 — just days before his body was found in the third floor hallway of the apartment building where Yarmey lived.