Potent Heroin Mix Hits the Streets: The dangerous heroin epidemic has amplified with reports of heroin laced with elephant tranquilizer hitting the streets. Nadia Kounang and Tony Marco of CNN report that at 10,000 times stronger than morphine, carfentanil, a version of fentanyl, is the most potent opioid in commercial use and not approved for human use. It is used to sedate large animals, such an elephants; a 2,000-pound elephant can be knocked out with just two milligrams of carfentanil. Recent overdose outbreaks in Ohio, Indiana and Florida have sparked major concern after being linked to the drug. Police believe more than one dealer was involved in distributing the potent mix, which is often cut with dangerous substances to stretch the supply and then taken without the user's knowledge. Carfentanil cases are not tracked separately and are instead flagged by state authorities a handful at a time after postmortem testing. Very few labs are neither equipped to test for it nor have the ability to identify it. The University of Florida is in the process of developing a new test to identify the drug, which the DEA says is being manufactured in China and transported through Mexico.
OH Murderer's Death Sentence Affirmed: The Ohio Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday the death sentence of a man convicted of murder over a decade ago. WKBN reports that the state high court voted 6-1 to affirm the death penalty case of Nathaniel Jackson for murdering Robert Fingerhut in 2001. The Eleventh District Court of Appeals had vacated the sentence after finding that an assistant prosecutor improperly assisted the trial judge in preparing the sentence opinion. Jackson conspired behind bars to murder Fingerhut after starting an affair with his wife, Donna Roberts, who was the sole beneficiary of two life insurance policies totaling $550,000. While Jackson was locked up, the two exchanged letters and phone calls plotting Fingerhut's murder. Roberts purchased a ski mask and gloves, picked Jackson up when he was released from prison and Fingerhut was found shot to death two days later. Jackson was found guilty of two counts of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery in 2002 and sentenced to death. Roberts was found guilty of aggravated murder and other offenses and also given a death sentence. Both continue to sit on Ohio's death row.
OH Murderer's Death Sentence Affirmed: The Ohio Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday the death sentence of a man convicted of murder over a decade ago. WKBN reports that the state high court voted 6-1 to affirm the death penalty case of Nathaniel Jackson for murdering Robert Fingerhut in 2001. The Eleventh District Court of Appeals had vacated the sentence after finding that an assistant prosecutor improperly assisted the trial judge in preparing the sentence opinion. Jackson conspired behind bars to murder Fingerhut after starting an affair with his wife, Donna Roberts, who was the sole beneficiary of two life insurance policies totaling $550,000. While Jackson was locked up, the two exchanged letters and phone calls plotting Fingerhut's murder. Roberts purchased a ski mask and gloves, picked Jackson up when he was released from prison and Fingerhut was found shot to death two days later. Jackson was found guilty of two counts of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery in 2002 and sentenced to death. Roberts was found guilty of aggravated murder and other offenses and also given a death sentence. Both continue to sit on Ohio's death row.
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