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In the Bag.. Well sort of !

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http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/506825.html

Man, 44, chokes on bag of white substance 44-year-old, who died later in hospital, suspected of trying to hide drugs from cops in Tims’ washroom By IAN FAIRCLOUGH Valley Bureau

NEW MINAS — A Kings County man died Saturday after choking on a plastic sandwich bag that possibly contained drugs he was trying to hide from police.

A Kings RCMP member spotted Kenneth David Wright, 44, in his car in the Tim Hortons parking lot in New Minas just before 3 p.m. The officer stopped to talk to Mr. Wright because of an alleged breach of a recognizance, said RCMP spokesman Const. Les Kakonyi.

Mr. Wright indicated he had stopped at the coffee shop to use the washroom. He was not under arrest, so the officer allowed him to go inside, Const. Kakonyi said. When he didn’t come out after a few minutes, the officer went looking for him.

"He was in long enough to arouse suspicion," Const. Kakonyi said.

The officer went into the washroom and found Mr. Wright choking on a plastic bag that was later found to contain a white substance.

The officer called for an ambulance and paramedics tried to help Mr. Wright but he died shortly after arrival at Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville. An autopsy determined he died of asphyxiation.

Const. Kakonyi said the plastic bag was like a fairly large sandwich bag, and emergency workers were unable to remove it before arriving at the hospital.

The white substance has been sent to a toxicology lab to determine what it is, but police suspect it is an illegal drug that Mr. Wright was trying to hide from police, Const. Kakonyi said.

"Once we are able to establish what the substance was, we may be able to determine if he was trying to hide something," he said.

Last Wednesday, Mr. Wright was released from custody on six criminal charges but with several conditions, including that he not possess or take non-prescription drugs.

He had been arrested the previous Sunday and charged with six offences against three people: threatening to cause bodily harm to a man, threatening to burn property of the same man and threatening to kill him, threatening to cause bodily harm to his wife and damaging her property, and interfering with the lawful enjoyment of property of another woman. All the alleged offences took place in Port Williams.

Sometime after the alleged threats were made, Mr. Wright was involved in a car crash, although there is no indication police were pursuing him at the time.

Court documents show he was arraigned at Valley Regional Hospital last Monday and held in custody there until he was discharged from the hospital for his bail hearing.

He was to return to court on the charges next Monday.

Const. Kakonyi said the RCMP Southwest Nova major crime unit and Kings RCMP are investigating Mr. Wright’s death, as is standard in any sudden death.

( ifairclough@herald.ca)

Submitted on 05/30/2006

Submitted by: James Fortune
Reference: http://thechronicleherald.ca/N

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James said:
Definitely Toss: Other
This is a variation on the ol' "drugs in the condom" trick, often resorted to by drug smugglers, and all too often with predictably fatal results. In this case, the victim panicked and basically ate a sandwich bag full of white substance, presumably drugs. I can't find anything which might make this DA-worthy; if anything, this is another case of panic in the presence of law enforcement, which is too common for a DA. Thanks for the submission, James, we DO appreciate it!


Greg said:
Maybe Toss: Other
Hmmmm... I won't Definitely toss this, because he tried to swallow something MUCH larger than a condom. Which is quite dumb...


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