By Logan Smith | CBS Colorado
Prison sentences were handed out Wednesday to the last of five people involved in the fatal fentanyl overdose of a Colorado inmate. The pills that killed her were smuggled into the jail inside another woman’s body.
Alizon Lopez was found unresponsive in her cell at 2:30 p.m. on May 21, 2022, by her cellmate, shortly after she had finished her work shift in the jail’s laundry. Jail deputies and nursing staff immediately began CPR and called for an ambulance. But Lopez never recovered.
Months later, the Mesa County Coroner’s Office concluded Lopez died of fentanyl intoxication. It called her death an accident.