Anthony Baker
Anthony Baker, 36, died at a hospital on March 15, 2023, after being found unresponsive in his cell at the Thurston County Jail in Olympia. The Thurston County Sheriff's Office attributed his death to a fentanyl overdose and said the jail had several fentanyl overdoses that month. His mother, Cynthia Dole, said she is grieving her son and wants to know how drugs got into the jail. Questions about how the drugs reached him and how staff responded remain open.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The Thurston County Sheriff's Office says Anthony Baker died of a fentanyl overdose, and his mother, Cynthia Dole, is asking how drugs got into the jail.
Reported by: Thurston County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him); Cynthia Dole, his mother (family or their lawyers).