Hawaii crime boss died of a drug overdose whereas in jail, medical expert reveals | EUROtoday

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A Hawaii crime boss who died in federal detention this month was killed by an opioid overdose, Honolulu’s medical expert mentioned Tuesday.

Michael Miske, 50, died of “toxicity of fentanyl and para-fluorofentanyl,” the medical expert’s workplace mentioned in an announcement. The loss of life seems to have been unintentional however the case continues to be underneath investigation, it added, and an post-mortem report will probably take not less than one other 30 days.

It’s not clear how Miske acquired ahold of fentanyl or para-fluorofentanyl whereas on the Honolulu Federal Detention Center. Para-fluorofentanyl is an artificial opioid that seems in illicit medicine and is stronger than fentanyl.

The Bureau of Prisons didn’t instantly reply to an e mail looking for remark.

Miske was discovered unresponsive on the lockup on December 1. Efforts by workers and emergency medical responders failed to avoid wasting him, the company mentioned.

He was convicted in July on 13 expenses together with racketeering conspiracy, homicide in the help of racketeering, and kidnapping leading to loss of life. He was accused of orchestrating crimes that included the kidnapping of a 72-year-old accountant who owed a debt, the discharge of a poisonous chemical right into a rival’s nightclubs and the killing of his late son’s finest pal.

The conviction entitled the federal government to take management of as much as $28 million in Miske’s belongings, together with boats, homes and art work.

He was scheduled to be sentenced on January 30.

The Bureau of Prisons operates 122 federal lockups throughout the nation. It has suffered a sequence of incidents and crises lately, from rampant sexual abuse and different prison misconduct by workers to power understaffing, escapes and high-profile deaths.

In August an inmate and two different folks have been charged with conspiring to mail medicine to a penitentiary in California, the place a mailroom supervisor died after opening a letter that prosecutors mentioned was laced with fentanyl and different substances.