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Inmate’s overdose death at Cumberland County Jail raises security concerns
By pressherald.com- Scott Dolan
Published: 04/20/2016

An inmate who died last week in the Cumberland County Jail had swallowed a drug-filled balloon before being taken into custody and it burst inside him, causing an overdose, his lawyers say they were told by jail officials.

Nikco Bashari Walton, 24, of Portland, died at the jail on April 11. He had been admitted on April 5.

Walton’s attorneys, Cory McKenna and Amy Fairfield, said Tuesday they are skeptical that Walton could have carried a drug-filled balloon in his intestines for a week. More likely, they say, is that Walton obtained the drugs that killed him after he was incarcerated.

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