MINNEAPOLIS — Prosecutors have charged a woman with third-degree murder for allegedly providing a fatal dose of heroin to another inmate while they were in the Hennepin County Jail.
Cortney Ann Metcalfe, 31, of Plymouth was charged in the fatal overdose of Kristina Duren, 40, of St. Paul. Duren was found unresponsive in her bunk early on Jan. 21.
Metcalfe and Duren were in jail on unrelated drug-related arrests and were in adjacent beds. Investigators looked a surveillance video and saw the two head toward the bathroom the morning of Duren's death.
After Duren's death, Metcalfe was taken to HCMC for a search. Officers saw a plastic bindle on the ground under where Metcalfe sat. The Star Tribune reports the bindle contained heroin, which Metcalfe told investigators she had smuggled into jail.
Woman charged with murder in Hennepin Co. jail heroin OD
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a woman with third-degree murder for allegedly providing a fatal dose of heroin to another inmate while they were in the Hennepin County Jail.
Thirty-one-year-old Cortney Ann Metcalfe of Plymouth was charged in the fatal overdose of 40-year-old Kristina Duren of St. Paul. Duren was found unresponsive in her bunk early on Jan. 21.
Metcalfe and Duren were in jail on unrelated drug-related arrests and were in adjacent beds. Investigators looked a surveillance video and saw the two head toward the bathroom the morning of Duren's death.
After Duren's death, Metcalfe was taken to HCMC for a search. Officers saw a plastic bindle on the ground under where Metcalfe sat. The bindle contained heroin, which Metcalfe told investigators she had smuggled into jail.
