Rapper treated for opioids during police search of plane
by: DON BABWIN, Associated Press
Posted: Dec 9, 2019 / 04:42 PM EST / Updated: Dec 9, 2019 / 06:04 PM EST
FILE – In this May 15, 2019 file photo, Juice WRLD performs in concert during his "Death Race for Love Tour" at The Skyline Stage at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. The Chicago-area rapper, whose real name is Jarad A. Higgins, was pronounced dead Sunday, Dec. 8 after a "medical emergency" at Chicago's Midway International Airport, according to authorities. Chicago police said they're conducting a death investigation. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)
Chicago (AP) — A federal agent who was at a Chicago airport to search a private plane that rapper Juice WRLD and his entourage had arrived in administered the opioid antidote Narcan to the performer, who briefly woke up incoherent but later died, authorities said Monday.
The plane carrying the 21-year-old rapper, who was named top new artist at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards in May, and about a dozen other people landed at Midway International Airport at around 2 a.m. Sunday. Federal agents and city police officers, acting on a tip that a private plane coming from Los Angeles to Midway was carrying guns and drugs, were waiting, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Monday.
During a search in a private hangar, a drug-sniffing dog made a "positive alert" on luggage carts that were loaded with bags from the plane, Guglielmi said. Inside, they found multiple bags of suspected marijuana, several bottles of prescription cough syrup, three guns, metal-piercing bullets and a high-capacity ammunition magazine, he said.
The rapper, whose real name was Jarad Higgins and who was from the Chicago suburb of Homewood, went into convulsions during the search. One of the agents administered Narcan after the rapper's girlfriend said he had been taking Percocet, an opioid painkiller, Guglielmi said, confirming a report in the Chicago Tribune. Higgins woke up but remained incoherent, the paper reported. He was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at about 3:15 a.m. Sunday.
An autopsy was completed Monday but the toxicology test results were still pending, the medical examiner's office said. Foul play is not suspected in his death.
None of the dozen or so people on the plane admitted to carrying the drugs, but detectives were conducting a forensic analysis to determine which bags belonged to which passengers, he said, adding that two security guards who on the plane were arrested on misdemeanor gun charges.
More Nation & World News Stories
Gouda news! Today is National Cheese Lover's Day!
(NEWS10) -- Look sharp, today is nacho average Monday. It's a gouda day to give one of the world's grate foods its fondue. In queso you're not aware what we're talking about... let us shred some light. January 20, 2020 is National Cheese Lover's Day!
Experts disabrie but most believe the first cheese-making dates back more than 4,000 years ago, according to the International Dairy Foods Association. Legend has it, an Arabian traveler making his way across the desert found that the milk he kept stored in a pouch made from a sheep's stomach had separated into whey (liquid) and curds (cheese) with a delighful flavor.
YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the theft of nearly 100 beehives from an orchard in northern California.
The beehives, which are used to pollinate almond orchards, were discovered missing on Friday, beekeeper Mike Potts said. He estimated that the theft of the 92 hives, about a third of his operation, would cost him about $44,000 in revenue.
REPLAY: Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade in downtown Charleston
Two winning $100,000 Palmetto Cash 5 tickets sold at Charleston area Harris Teeter
Charleston County News / 6 hours ago
Storm Team 2 / 4 hours ago
2 Your Roots: The History of Meeting Street
2 Your Roots / 5 hours ago
Clear skies. Low around 30F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Precip: 0%
Abundant sunshine Precip: 0%
South Carolina makes millions by selling your driver's license information
Body found in Anderson County retention pond; Sheriff's Office investigating
Crew crews to conduct controlled burn in McClellanville