Officers suspect inmate overdosed

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning County jail officers suspect an inmate overdosed on fentanyl on March 14, according to a sheriff’s office report.

Officers noted in their report inmate William E. Kerensky, 34, of Evanston Avenue, Youngstown, was “acting very lost, talking with a very slow slurred speech and stumbling around.”

He admitted ingesting the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, which he bought from another jail inmate for $20 in commissary funds, the report states.

When Kerensky’s lips turned blue, a jail nurse gave Kerensky naloxone, the opioid-reversal medication. Officers then transported him to a hospital.

Jail officers arrested and searched the inmates Kerensky identified and their cells, but did not locate any drugs, the report states. Kerensky is in jail on a charge of breaking and entering.