Kirkersville, Ohio Police Chief Died From an Overdosed on Drugs from The Evidence Locker

 Kirkersville, Ohio Police Chief Died From an Overdosed on Drugs from The Evidence Locker

Ohio has been in a serious Opioid epidemic since early 1990s

Kirkersville Police Chief James Hughes Jr. was found unresponsive in his home May 25 and pronounced dead shortly after, the Newark Advocate reported. An autopsy revealed he died from “acute intoxication by fentanyl.”

Hughes, who was 35 years old, had only been on the job for a few months before he died.

“He was hired in March and wasn’t here that long, but he kept me informed [about] what was going on,” Kirkersville Mayor Terry Ashcraft told the Newark Advocate after Hughes’ death. “A lot of stuff goes on in this town, and he’d come and done his job and never had a complaint on him.”
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