According to the medical examiner, a heroin overdose claimed a Hawaii criminal boss while under federal custody.
Honolulu’s medical examiner Tuesday confirmed that an opioid overdose claimed the life of a Hawaii crime lord who passed away in federal custody last month.
The medical examiner’s office stated in a statement, Michael Miske, 50, died of “toxicity of fentanyl and para-fluorofentanyl.” Although the death looks to have been accidental, the matter is still under investigation; an autopsy report will probably take at least another thirty days.
How Miske obtained fentanyl or para-fluorofentanyl while housed at the Honolulu Federal Detention Center is not known. More powerful than fentanyl, para-fluorofentanyl is a synthetic opioid found in illicit narcotics.
The Bureau of Prisons delayed answering an email for comments.
At the prison on December 1 Miske was discovered unconscious. The organization reported that efforts by staff members and emergency medical responders failed to save him.
July saw his conviction on 13 counts, including racketeering conspiracy, murder in the aid of racketeering, and kidnapping resulting in death. He was accused of planning crimes involving the murder of his late son’s best friend, the leaking of a poisonous substance into a competitor’s nightclubs, and the kidnapping of a 72-year-old accountant owing a bill.
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The conviction gave the government authority over yachts, homes, artwork, and maybe $28 million in Miske’s possessions.
On January 30 he was supposed to be sentenced.
Operating 122 federal lockdowns all throughout the nation is the Bureau of Prisons. From severe sexual abuse and other staff misbehavior to chronic understaffing, escapes, and high-profile fatalities, it has had a run of events and crises recently.
An inmate and two others were accused in August with conspiring to send drugs to a California penitentiary where a mailroom supervisor died after opening a letter allegedly laced with fentanyl and other narcotics.
