The federal Drug Enforcement Agency has charged former Los Angeles Angels director of communications Eric Kay with supplying the drugs that killed pitcher Tyler Skaggs last year.
Skaggs was found dead in his Texas hotel room from choking on his own vomit after ingesting a lethal mix of alcohol and the painkillers fentanyl and oxycodone. He was 27 years old and in town for his team’s game against the Texas Rangers.
Kay has been charged with illegal possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, a controlled substance, by Erin Nealy Cox, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. .
“Tyler Skaggs’ overdose — coming, as it did, in the midst of an ascendant baseball career — should be a wake-up call: No one is immune from this deadly drug, whether sold as a powder or hidden inside an innocuous-looking tablet,” Nealy Cox said.
Skaggs was found dead in his Texas hotel room from choking on his own vomit after ingesting a lethal mix of alcohol and the painkillers fentanyl and oxycodone. He was 27 years old and in town for his team’s game against the Texas Rangers.
Kay has been charged with illegal possession with intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, a controlled substance, by Erin Nealy Cox, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. .
“Tyler Skaggs’ overdose — coming, as it did, in the midst of an ascendant baseball career — should be a wake-up call: No one is immune from this deadly drug, whether sold as a powder or hidden inside an innocuous-looking tablet,” Nealy Cox said.
- 8/7/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is investigating the overdose death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, focusing on how the 27-year-old pitcher obtained the drugs.
ESPN reported the probe, but didn’t indicate why the feds are getting involved. The Skaggs family alluded to the possible involvement of an Angels employee when the medical examiner’s report established his cause of death.
The Angels issued a statement at the time of the coroner’s report, but did not reference any employee role.
“Tyler was and always will be a beloved member of the Angels Family and we are deeply saddened to learn what caused this tragic death,” the Angels said. “Angels Baseball has provided our full cooperation and assistance to the Southlake (Texas) Police as they conduct their investigation.”
Skaggs died in a Texas hotel room on July 1, choking on his own vomit from a lethal combination of the opioids fentanyl,...
ESPN reported the probe, but didn’t indicate why the feds are getting involved. The Skaggs family alluded to the possible involvement of an Angels employee when the medical examiner’s report established his cause of death.
The Angels issued a statement at the time of the coroner’s report, but did not reference any employee role.
“Tyler was and always will be a beloved member of the Angels Family and we are deeply saddened to learn what caused this tragic death,” the Angels said. “Angels Baseball has provided our full cooperation and assistance to the Southlake (Texas) Police as they conduct their investigation.”
Skaggs died in a Texas hotel room on July 1, choking on his own vomit from a lethal combination of the opioids fentanyl,...
- 9/20/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died from a mixture of the opioids fentanyl and oxycodone combined with alcohol, causing him to choke, according to a toxicology report released today by the Tarrant County, Texas medical examiner’s office.
The 27-year-old pitcher was found dead in his Texas hotel room on July 1. The coroner’s report said his cause of death was a mixture of “alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone intoxication with terminal aspiration of gastric contents.” That means he choked on his own vomit from the combination while under the influence. The death was ruled accidental.
The coroner’s report partially vindicates an earlier report from the Santa Monica Observer, which said in a column that Skaggs may have died from opioid abuse. He was found fully clothed in his hotel room and there were no signs of trauma. The Observer report was taken down after the Angels and police complained about its accuracy,...
The 27-year-old pitcher was found dead in his Texas hotel room on July 1. The coroner’s report said his cause of death was a mixture of “alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone intoxication with terminal aspiration of gastric contents.” That means he choked on his own vomit from the combination while under the influence. The death was ruled accidental.
The coroner’s report partially vindicates an earlier report from the Santa Monica Observer, which said in a column that Skaggs may have died from opioid abuse. He was found fully clothed in his hotel room and there were no signs of trauma. The Observer report was taken down after the Angels and police complained about its accuracy,...
- 8/30/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
11:15 Am Pt -- The judge has set Michael Bennett's bond at $10,000 ... and has imposed a no-contact order between Bennett and the stadium employee. 1:30 Pm Pt -- Bennett has been released from Harris County Jail. Philadelphia Eagles star Michael Bennett has just arrived for his first court appearance in Houston ... 3 days after he was charged with injuring a 66-year-old paraplegic woman at the 2017 Super Bowl. The formal charge is "injury to the elderly" --...
- 3/26/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
A week after his long-term relationship with country singer Mindy McCready was revealed, Roger Clemens says he's sorry. "I need to say that I have made mistakes in my personal life for which I am sorry," the baseball star said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle. "Like everyone, I have flaws. I have sometimes made choices which have not been right."Clemens, 45, and McCready's relationship became public last week when the pitcher was accused of having affairs with several women, including McCready, who was reportedly 15 when the two met. Although McCready, 32, admitted to the affair with Clemens, a married...
- 5/5/2008
- by Christina Tapper
- PEOPLE.com
A tearful Mindy McCready confirmed to the New York Daily News that she carried on a longterm affair with Yankee star pitcher Roger Clemens. “I cannot refute anything in the story,” the country singer says of reports that she met Clemens in 1990 when she was 15 years old and singing in a karaoke contest at a Florida bar. Clemens, then with the Boston Red Sox, was 28 and a married father of two at the time. "Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time," McCready told the paper in a prepared statement. "He's a kind and caring man.” McCready's father,...
- 4/29/2008
- by Eileen Finan
- PEOPLE.com
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