SCITUATE, Mass. (WPRI) — A Massachusetts man has been charged with murder after a body was found in a car outside of a hospital last month.

Christopher Caron, 42, of Scituate, was arraigned Tuesday and ordered held without bail.

On Aug. 23, Caron allegedly parked a Honda Civic outside of South Shore Hospital's emergency room and told the staff there was a body inside, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office.

An employee found an unresponsive man "wrapped in multiple blankets secured with duct tape," the DA's office said. He was identified as Declan Perry, 27, of Portland, Maine.

In court Tuesday, prosecutors said the two men met up at Caron's condo before going to Boston to buy cocaine and fentanyl.

Later that night, Caron said Perry overdosed, so he called a woman

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