Hawaii crime boss Michael Miske died of drug overdose whereas in federal detention: health worker

A Hawaii crime boss who died in federal detention this month was killed by an opioid overdose, Honolulu’s health worker mentioned Tuesday.

Michael Miske, 50, died of “toxicity of fentanyl and para-fluorofentanyl,” the health worker’s workplace mentioned in a press release.

The demise seems to have been unintentional however the case continues to be beneath investigation, it added, and an post-mortem report will possible take at the least one other 30 days.

It’s not clear how Miske obtained ahold of fentanyl or para-fluorofentanyl whereas on the Honolulu Federal Detention Heart.

Para-fluorofentanyl is an artificial opioid that seems in illicit medication and is stronger than fentanyl.

The Bureau of Prisons didn’t instantly reply to an e mail in search of remark.

Miske was discovered unresponsive on the lockup on Dec. 1.

Efforts by workers and emergency medical responders failed to avoid wasting him, the company mentioned.

He was convicted in July on 13 prices, together with racketeering conspiracy, homicide in assistance from racketeering, and kidnapping leading to demise.

He was accused of orchestrating crimes that included the kidnapping of a 72-year-old accountant who owed a debt, the discharge of a poisonous chemical right into a rival’s nightclubs and the killing of his late son’s greatest good friend.

The conviction entitled the federal government to take management of as much as $28 million in Miske’s property, together with boats, homes and paintings.

He was scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 30.

The Bureau of Prisons operates 122 federal lockups throughout the nation.

It has suffered a sequence of incidents and crises lately, from rampant sexual abuse and different legal misconduct by workers to continual understaffing, escapes and high-profile deaths.

In August an inmate and two different folks had been charged with conspiring to mail medication to a penitentiary in California, the place a mailroom supervisor died after opening a letter that prosecutors mentioned was laced with fentanyl and different substances.