In the early morning hours of 01-06-2018 a jailer at the Barton County Sheriff’s Office went to conduct a check of the inmates and located a female inmate deceased in her cell.
The deceased inmate is a Colleen A. Blake, age 33, of Joplin, Mo and she was the only occupant of the cell.
The next of kin has been contacted and has been advised of the death. The sheriff contacted Vernon County Sheriff Jason Moser and asked for an agency assist to do an independent investigation on the in custody death.
An investigator came from Vernon County Sheriff’s Office and investigated the death.
The body has been sent to Frontier Forensic in Kansas City for an autopsy. Blake was incarcerated in the Barton County Jail on criminal charges of tampering with a motor vehicle, city charges of failure to pay fines and contempt of court. She had been incarcerated in the Barton County Jail since 11-09-2017.
I knew her.
ReplyDeleteVery sad. She was a young girl.
ReplyDeleteHas there been any update as to how or why she died?