Nearly three years after a man died in the Tarrant County Jail from a fentanyl overdose, a federal lawsuit against the county and a jail commissary company has been dismissed.<\/p>\n
Trelynn Wormley, 23, died July 20, 2022, while in the custody of the jail.<\/p>\n
Wormley’s mother, Cassandra Johnson, sued, alleging the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office allowed drugs into the jail.<\/p>\n
According to Johnson’s lawsuit, an investigation showed that a worker employed by Keefe Commissary Network<\/a> smuggled drugs into the county jail.<\/p>\n The judge ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that the jail had a policy of allowing drugs inside, and the case was dismissed with prejudice. This means the judge’s decision is final and the case can’t be brought back to court.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not surprised by the dismissal of this lawsuit. The complaint had no factual basis, and we are happy the court recognized that,” a Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office official said.<\/p>\n The commissary company did not reply to NBC 5’s request to comment on the story.<\/p>\n In September 2022, Aaliyah Lyles, who worked as a contractor at the jail, was arrested after an investigation into drug trafficking. According to a warrant, in an interview after her arrest, Lyles told investigators an inmate offered to pay for her to get her hair done and then put her in touch with a dealer who offered to pay her $200 to carry drugs into the jail. The drugs she admitted smuggling included fentanyl, Tarrant County Sheriff Waybourn said at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lyles was indicted in March 2023. In October 2024, she was sentenced to 10 years probation and 160 hours of community service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly three years after a man died in the Tarrant County Jail from a fentanyl overdose, a federal…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-83806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-tarrant-county","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114898191489574161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}