4 inmates who overdosed at Grayson County Detention Center Annex indicted by grand jury

The four inmates who overdosed at the Grayson County Detention Center Annex on January 2 have been indicted by the Grayson County Grand Jury.

The night of January 2 at approximately 7:35, first responders were dispatched to the Grayson County Detention Center Annex on the report of multiple inmates not breathing. Upon the Leitchfield Police and Fire Departments, and EMS responding to the scene, officials found four inmates in various stages of respiratory duress, with some of the inmates not breathing at all.

By 7:49, all four inmates had been transported or were en route to Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center via EMS, and were alert and conscious. After receiving treatment, they were returned to the jail a few hours later.

The indictment handed down against the four inmates reveal that the drug the four overdosed on was synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as “spice.”

The four inmates, 23-year-old Quinterious Collins, of Danville, 39-year-old Ronnie Rowe, of Flatwoods, 37-year-old Justin Warren, of Hickman, and 30-year-old Chris Snawder, of Shepherdsville, were indicted for first-degree promoting contraband, a class D felony, and first-degree being a persistent felony offender.

Collins was being held at the Grayson County Detention Center for possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), Rowe for burglary, Snawder for trafficking in synthetic drugs, and Warren for his fourth DUI conviction.