In the new court papers filed in Fort Worth on Friday, Texas, Federal prosecutors accused former Los Angeles Angels public relations director Eric Kay may have provided illegal drugs to at least five other people. Major League Baseball Players other than pitcher Tyler Skaggs.
Kay is facing a trial related to the fatal Skaggs overdose in 2019 that began on October 4. In October 2020, a federal grand jury in Texas charged him with two counts of distributing synthetic drugs. Opioids The fentanyl that led to the death of Skaggs. He has pleaded not guilty.
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The latest documents show that prosecutors plan to provide testimony from five players who claimed to have obtained oxycodone from Kay. There are no player names in the document, but Friday’s document states that Kay has provided “controlled substances, including oxycodone” to Angels players since 2017.
this Los Angeles Times According to reports, all five people are willing to testify in court, claiming that Kay is the “only source” for providing oxycodone to the players.
The prosecutor wrote in the document that the witness testimony would confirm the text message communication between Kay and Skaggs, that Kay provided the player with pills in order to allow Kay to use some drug supplies himself.
The court document stated: “Therefore, it provides the background and background for the relevant distribution of the indictment.”
Amy Dash of the Justice League also reported that the government reportedly has evidence that a drug dealer delivered counterfeit drugs to Kay at Angel Stadium on June 30, 2019.
Dash wrote that after Kay got the pill to play against the Rangers on June 30, the team set off for Texas. Kay allegedly brought the pills to Skaggs’ hotel room at the Hilton Hotel in Southlake Town Plaza in Southlake, Texas, around midnight. Skaggs was later found dead from a fatal overdose in his hotel room on July 1, 2019.
According to Dash, another theory that will emerge from the government is that Kay operates a drug distribution business within the Angels organization and sometimes uses Skaggs as an intermediary. Allegedly, Kay will use Skaggs to facilitate the distribution of pills to other electroplaters.
In June, Skaggs’ family filed a negligent death lawsuit against the angel. The lawsuit stated that “the Angels owe Taylor Carggs the responsibility of providing a safe place to work and play baseball.”
“When the angels allowed Kay, a drug addict, to have full contact with Taylor, they violated their duties,” the Skaggs family lawsuit continued. “When they allowed Kay to provide Tyler with dangerous illegal drugs, the Angels also violated their duties. The Angels should know that Kay was supplying drugs to the players. Taylor died because the Angels violated their duties.”
