COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A suspect charged in connection with the death of a prisoner at the Lakeland Correctional Facility after methamphetamine was smuggled into the prison was sentenced on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court.
24-year-old Aaliyah Monet Lent of Saginaw entered a guilty plea on September 9 to a charge of conspiring to furnish contraband to a prisoner.
She was placed on three years probation and ordered to serve six months in the Branch County Jail with credit for two days already served.
The Michigan State Police at Marshall announced in August she was one of two suspects arrested and charged in connection with the death of 57-year-old Lakeland inmate William Wilson.
Wilson was found deceased in a bathroom in October 2023. 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 co-defendant 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 was sentenced to spend three to 20 years in the M.D.O.C. on August 12.
Lent was arrested August 2 in Detroit by the Michigan State Police Fugitive team.
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