Teen hospitalized for fentanyl and grandmother arrested

GILLETTE (WNE) — An 18-year-old was hospitalized and his grandmother was arrested east of Gillette early Tuesday morning after the teen was found unresponsive from a suspected fentanyl overdose.
 
When Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the home on M and M Circle at about 6 a.m. Tuesday, the 18-year-old man wasn’t breathing and was suspected to have overdosed on fentanyl. Deputies helped EMS paramedics, who gave the man naloxone, or Narcan. He began breathing and was taken to the hospital. Later he was ticketed for use of a controlled substance, said Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds.
 
There were four other adults in the residence: the 58-year-old grandmother plus two men and a woman in their 30s.
 
Deputies saw drug paraphernalia in plain sight and were denied when they asked the homeowner to search the residence. They were later granted a search warrant, and in the grandmother’s bedroom, they found several meth pipes with less than 1 gram of suspected meth, a marijuana vape pen along with a misdemeanor amount of marijuana, suspected fentanyl and about 30 unidentified pills she did not have a prescription for, Reynolds said.
 

She was arrested for felony possession of pills, her third or subsequent offense, and misdemeanor counts of THC possession, meth possession and marijuana possession, according to the Sheriff’s Office arrest log.
This story was published on April 5, 2023.