Investigation has determined that a jail inmate used a body cavity to smuggle dangerous drugs into the Mohave County Adult Detention Center in Kingman. That’s the primary update from the Mohave County Sheriff’s office regarding the April 16 hospitalization of five jail inmates for treatment of overdoses within the jail.
Detectives learned that inmate Jonathan Hutchinson, 24, of Parker, had smuggled contraband into the Detention Facility in his body cavity,” a news release stated. “The investigation revealed that Hutchinson had smuggled into the Detention Facility approximately 30 counterfeit hydrocodone 30 mg pills and an unknown amount of methamphetamine.”
Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said DPS crime lab analysis confirmed that the hydrocodone pills were created with use of the synthetic opioid known as fetanyl. She said a small amount of the substance was located in the possession of inmates Michael Pauly, 29, Mesquite, Nevada and Anthony Colella, 52, Lake Havasu City.
Mortensen said the county attorney’s office will review the investigative findings while contemplating additional charges against the trio.
