FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The 3 radical arrested pursuing the decease of a idiosyncratic astatine the U.S. Penitentiary successful Atwater person been formally charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), national officials announced connected Thursday.
According to the DOJ, a national expansive assemblage has indicted 35-year-old Jamar Jones (an inmate astatine U.S. Penitentiary successful Atwater), 35-year-old Stephanie Ferreira of Evansville successful Indiana, and 37-year-old Jermen Rudd III of Wentzville successful Missouri. It is alleged that they conspired to present narcotics into the U.S. Penitentiary successful Atwater for Jones to sell.
Federal officials say, arsenic portion of the scheme, the different 2 indicted worked unneurotic to message a missive laced with narcotics to Jones that was fraudulently labeled arsenic ineligible mail. On Aug. 9, 2 correctional workers astatine the U.S. Penitentiary successful Atwater opened the missive and began to consciousness ill. One passed distant and the different recovered.
The correctional idiosyncratic who passed distant was aboriginal identified arsenic Marc Fischer. A memorial work was held for him past week. A GoFundMe online fundraiser for Marc Fischer has truthful acold raised implicit $10,000.
Federal officials adhd that the narcotics successful the missive consisted of 2 types of synthetic cannabinoids, some sold nether the thoroughfare sanction "Spice." Synthetic cannabinoids are lab-created chemicals that tin beryllium distributed successful liquid signifier and are designed to nutrient a psychoactive effect.