Daniels photo Lee's Summit Police
JACKSON COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a man for allegedly selling heroin to a suburban Kansas City woman who drowned in a bathtub while high.
The Lee's Summit Police Department reported that a search for 28-year-old Jared Daniels ended late Monday and he is in custody. Over the weekend, prosecutors charged Daniels with second-degree felony murder and delivery of a controlled substance in the death of 23-year-old Taylor Stephens.
Court documents say Stephen's boyfriend found her unresponsive in a bathtub in March. She was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police found a syringe and rubber tourniquet in the bathroom. An autopsy said the cause of death was drowning with "other significant condition to be acute heroin and Fentanyl intoxication." Records say Daniels also supplied heroin to a man who died of an overdose.