Aaron Hernandez's funeral took place on Monday but the saga surrounding his death continues to unfold. The former New England Patriots tight end committed suicide last week and Michele McPhee of Newsweek brings word that Hernandez tested positive for synthetic marijuana during the autopsy following his passing.
Details can be found here:
"Dozens of Massachusetts State Police troopers assigned to the State Police Emergency Response Team and Tactical Operations Team searched the SBCC — the jail where Hernandez died last week — looking for contraband, including paper soaked with the synthetic marijuana known as K2, the sources told Newsweek.
Department of Correction sources say it is unusual for state troopers to conduct an SBCC prison search, and that the presence of DOC Internal Affairs officials and the department's Commissioner Thomas Turco indicates a wide-scale investigation is underway at the prison, where one correction officer has already been "detached with pay" after being accused of missing around at 2 a.m. Hernandez was found dead at 3:03 a.m. There was also a "shakedown of the warehouse" shared by SBCC and a second prison, MCI-Shirley, the sources said. Both inmates and DOC employees work in that warehouse, which is used to store dry goods before they go into the prison, DOC sources confirm."
While it is simply an additional detail in a crazy and tragic story, the presence of the drug does bring even more scrutiny to the proceedings. More and more nuggets will continue to come out in terms of detail with what transpired and we'll have them here. Stay tuned.
