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Two more Trumbull inmates revived from drug overdoses
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Two more inmates at the Trumbull County jail overdosed on drugs Monday night and were taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Timothy A. McGowan, 31, of Bedford Road in Masury and Robert P. Click Jr., 35, of Streetsboro overdosed about 9:30 p.m., but corrections officers administered multiple doses of the opiate reversal drug naloxone and both were stabilized and taken to St. Joseph Warren Hospital.
Both are now back at the jail, Lt. Dan Mason, jail administrator, said Tuesday. The Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force investigated, identifying an inmate who they believe brought the drugs into the jail.
That inmate, who has not been identified, is expected to be charged with illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto a detention facility, Mason said.
Blood tests done on the two overdosing inmates will be used to determine whether to file drug-abuse charges against them, Mason added.
Human error in failing to follow jail policy has been identified as the reason for the inmate being able to smuggle drugs into the jail, Mason said. The inmate was screened with the jail’s new full-body scanner when he entered the jail, Mason said.
He declined to specify the type of policy the employee violated.
Three inmates overdosed Sept. 24 and were revived. At the time, jail officials had an employee of the scanner company look at the scan done on the inmate who smuggled drugs into the facility.
It showed that the innate didn’t have the drugs when he was scanned, and jail staff concluded the inmate had already moved the drugs to another location by the time he was scanned, Mason said.