OAK HILL, WV (WVNS) — A person pleaded responsible to possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or extra of methamphetamine and a amount of fentanyl.
Based on court docket paperwork, on September 7, 2022, police carried out a visitors cease in Oak Hill for a automotive through which Keith Deshon Adams, 39, of Statesville, North Carolina, was a passenger in. Adams admitted that he tried to run away after he was requested to get out of the automotive and stand in entrance of the officer’s automotive, which triggered Adams to be tased by the officer.
Whereas Adams was combating the officer, Adams opened a bag he was carrying on himself and took out a plastic dishevelled containing fentanyl powder. Adams tore open the bag, which triggered the fentanyl to spill out of the bag and onto the officer’s clothes, face and mouth. As a consequence of this incident, the officer started affected by an overdose.
Different officers got here to safe Adams. A second officer additionally began affected by an overdose as nicely after ingesting the fentanyl. Each officers had been taken to the hospital and handled with naloxone.
Adams then admitted that the bag he was carrying had different medication in it, together with methamphetamine, fentanyl and tablets containing methamphetamine and ecstasy.
Adams is scheduled to be sentenced on September 17, 2024, and faces a necessary minimal of 5 years and as much as 40 years in jail, no less than 4 years of supervised launch, and a $5 million positive.
