Jeremy P. Withers
Jeremy Withers, 32, died at the Greene County Jail in Xenia, Ohio, on February 28, 2017. Sheriff Gene Fischer said he likely swallowed drugs packed in a plastic bag that opened after dinner, and that the death was a suspected overdose. The sheriff said the jail's procedures were followed and that the death is under administrative review. WHIO reported that a body scanner that might have detected drugs had been rejected in past county budgets.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer said Withers likely swallowed drugs in a plastic bag that opened after dinner, and the death is under administrative review.
Reported by: Greene County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.