COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Michigan State Police at Marshall have announced that two more suspects have been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a prisoner at the Lakeland Correctional Facility after methamphetamine was smuggled into the prison.
57-year-old William Wilson was found deceased in a bathroom last October. He was serving a life sentence after a 1998 conviction in Saginaw County on four charges including assault with intent to commit murder and armed robbery.
According to the case file’s probable cause affidavit, an autopsy revealed three balloons in Wilson’s body. Two of them had burst but a balloon in his stomach was intact and contained a white crystal like substance which was tested and found to be methamphetamine with traces of cocaine.
The cause of death was listed as methamphetamine toxicity. The report went on to say the findings appear consistent with Wilson swallowing and later trying to regurgitate the balloons when they broke and exposed him to a large amount of narcotics.
24-year-old Dezaray Shenique Brown-Bobo of Detroit entered a guilty plea on July 8 on a charge of delivery of a controlled substance. Charges of delivering a controlled substance causing death and bringing contraband into a prison were dismissed by prosecutors in exchange for her plea. She is scheduled to be sentenced on August 12.
Since her arrest in March, additional arrest warrants were issued for 30-year-old Lakeland Correctional Facility inmate Evellis McGee and 24-year-old Aaliyah Monet Lent of Saginaw for their alleged roles in the case.
McGee was arrested July 30 while Lent was arrested August 2 in Detroit by the Michigan State Police Fugitive team and lodged in the Branch County jail.
Both were charged with conspiracy to furnish contraband to a prisoner while in prison. Bond for Kent was set at $5,000 while bond for McGee was denied.
McGee is serving time for a 2014 conviction of second degree murder in Saginaw County.
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