COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Another defendant who was charged in connection with the death of a Lakeland Correctional inmate after methamphetamine was smuggled into the prison was sentenced on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court.
32-year-old Michigan Department of Corrections inmate Evellis McGee had an additional 18 months to five years added to his prison sentence after he entered a no contest plea to a charge of conspiracy to furnishing contraband to a prisoner in prison.
McGee is serving 36 to 60 years for a 2014 conviction of second degree murder in Saginaw County.
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 last Monday in Branch County Circuit Court.
57-year-old William Wilson was found deceased in a bathroom in October of 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 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.
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