3 men Sebastian Andrade, Cory Ben-Hanania and Kevin McCaffrey charged in death of Johns Creek woman

A Fulton County grand jury has indicted an Alpharetta man and two friends in the drug-related death of a Johns Creek woman, Alpharetta police announced on Thursday.

Cory Ben-Hanania is in the Fulton County jail facing charges of felony murder, distribution of heroin and concealing a death, stemming from the death of 20-year-old Chelsea Bennett inside his Alpharetta home.  Police found the Johns Creek woman unconscious in Ben-Hanania’s home on Ridge Oak Place on March 3.

Court records indicate two other men, Sebastian Andrade and Kevin McCaffrey, also face charges related to Bennett’s death.

The Fulton County medical examiner told Petchenik that Bennett died of a morphine overdose.

Ben-Hanania’s attoey, Tom Salata, told Petchenik Bennett was his client’s good friend and called what happened a ”tragedy all the way around.

Salata said he was still gathering the facts and waiting for the state to present its evidence, but he said he didn’t believe the evidence would show the appropriate charge to be felony murder.

”My client is innocent, he told Petchenik.