AUTHORITIES HAVE ARRESTED A HENDERSON COUNTY JAIL INMATE INCONNECTION WITH A RECENT
FENTANYL OVERDOSE OF A FELLOW INMATE. DETECTIVE BILL MILLS WITH THE PENNYRILE NARCOTICS TASK
FORCE ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY’S ARREST OF 30-YEAR-OLD CORIYAHON LAMONT OUTLAW OF OAKWOOD PLACE IN EVANSVILLE.
DETECTIVE MILLS SAYS THE ARREST RESULTED FROM A JOINT INVESTIGATION BY DETENTION CENTER STAFF AND THE PENNYRILE
NARCOTICS TASK FORCE AFTER A DRUG OVERDOSE AT THE COUNTY DETENTION CENTER LAST SATURDAY NIGHT.
AUTHORITIES SAY DURING THE INVESTIGATION SEVERAL ITEMS THAT WERE USED TO INGEST THE DRUG TESTED POSITIVE FOR FENTANYL.
AFTER REVIEWING VIDEOS AND CONDUCTING A CELL SEARCH DETECTIVES DETERMINED THAT OUTLAW HAD THE SUSPECTED FENTANYL
HIDDEN ON HIS BODY AND BROUGHT IT INTO THE JAIL WHERE HE PROVIDED THE DRUG TO THE OVERDOSE VICTIM AND HIMSELF.
MILLS SAYS OUTLAW AND THE OTHER INMATE BOTH INGESTED THE DRUG AND THEN WENT TO BED. A SHORT TIME LATER THE OVERDOSE
VICTIM’S BODY WENT LIMP AND HE COLLAPSED. A JAIL GUARD LOCATED THE VICTIM AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE JAIL’S MEDICAL STAFF
ADMINISTERED NARCAN AND THE VICTIM WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HENDERSON DEACONESS HOSPITAL WHERE HE REMAINS HOSPITALIZED.
AUTHORITIES SAY OUTLAW WHO HAD BEEN INCARCERATED ON OTHER CHARGES PRIOR TO SATURDAY’S INCIDENT WAS UNCOOPERATIVE
DURING THE OVERDOSE INVESTIGATION.
OUTLAW HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH TRAFFICING IN A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE – FENTANYL, PROMOTING CONTRIBAND IN THE FIRST DEGREE,
TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA.
THE INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING AND MORE CHARGES AND ARRESTS MAY BE FORTHCOMING.
KEEP IN MIND THOSE CHARGED WITH A CRIME ARE PRESUMBED INNOCENT UNTIL AND UNLESS PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW.
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