Inmate charged with providing drugs to other inmates arraigned

YOUNGSTOWN

The man accused of providing drugs to two inmates who overdosed earlier this week at the Mahoning County jail was arraigned in municipal court.

Magistrate Anthony Sertick set bond at 10 percent of $40,000 for Victor Slocum, 22, of Aberdeen Avenue, who was arraigned Wednesday on charges of illegal conveyance of drugs into a detention facility, corrupting another with drugs and two counts of trafficking in drugs.

Slocum was just about to be released from the jail Monday after he managed to post bond on a possession-of-drugs charge from Struthers when the two inmates had to be revived with the opiate antidote Narcan by a jail nurse.

Jail officials charged Slocum with bringing in the drugs to the inmates.

The state Bureau of Criminal Investigation is running tests to see if the drug was fentanyl.

Sheriff’s officials would not say why they think Slocum supplied the drugs.

Read more about the case in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.