Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A person held at an Arapahoe County, Colorado jail died of a fentanyl overdose in June 2021. According to the account, the overdose followed taking a counterfeit pill that a cellmate gave them. The article places the death within a wider rise in drug contraband in Colorado jails. The person is not named in the account, and no official statement about the case is quoted.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose