Died in prison
Anthony Powell
Brandy Pokovich, a close friend, said she and Anthony Powell formed a deep bond over more than a dozen years through letters, calls and visits, and that he was loved and cared for by his family. Powell, 41, died in 2016 at the Oregon State Penitentiary, where he was held. Prosecutors said he swallowed methamphetamine-filled balloons passed to him during a visit, that two of them ruptured in his stomach, and that he died of methamphetamine toxicity.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. Prosecutors said he swallowed methamphetamine-filled balloons passed to him during a visit and died of methamphetamine toxicity.
Reported by: prosecutors.