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A Morris County resident was charged with distributing the fentanyl that led to the overdose death of a 19-year-old man last year, authorities said Friday. John P. Rowe, 30, faces a first-degree charge of strict liability for drug-induced death in the Sept. 22, 2021 overdose of another man at a motel in Mount Olive, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. The county medical examiner’s office found the man died from fentanyl toxicity. Investigators learned Rowe provided the drugs to the 19-year-old a day earlier in Morristown, according to the prosecutor’s office. Rowe, of Budd Lake…