(CNN)-Florida officials misrepresented the remains of two Irish citizens, who died of drug overdose, causing a mixture of their body examination and the “highly potential” cremation of the wrong body.
Kane Michelle, 30, and 31-year-old Luke Comiskey died in April 2022, in which Phantenal-Laced Drugs were consumed, one of them was bought from a person who was reportedly met a day earlier.
The two friends were from the Dublin region and lived together at Pinellus Park near St. Petersburg. The Pinellus Park Police Department said his employer discovered his bodies in his apartment, while he used to investigate them after missing the work.
A funeral house in Florida sent men’s remains to Ireland, according to a letter from a medical examiner’s office in Florida. One was cremated and the other was not, according to the wishes of the families.
The letter stated that in July, three months after his death, men’s families saw anomalies in the corpse examination reports, discovering an error in the labeling of the remains.
Men’s families then realized that according to correspondence between officials and an Irish consulate in Florida, Michelle’s remains were buried in the family conspiracy of Comiski in Dublin. He also learned that Comiskey, not Michelle, was cremated.
CNN recently learned about mix-up from a law enforcement source, who asked not to identify because they are not authorized to talk with the media about the case. A CNN request under the Open-Cords Act revealed the documents confirming the mix-up, which includes the letters of the Irish Consulate in Atlanta to include investigators involved in the office and case of the Medical Examiner.
When he was first discovered, the men were identified correctly, but later the tag was “crossed” in the labeling, then the error occurred, William Plan, the Director of the investigation at the District Six Medical Examiner’s Office, written to the Consulate of Ireland in Atlanta, in a August 2022 letter, which overcases South -East US.
As a result, it is highly likely that the funeral is considered as Kane Michelle, Luke was the people of Comiski, stated in the August 2022 letter.
“Our office is very repent about the tragedy of this situation,” Plan wrote.
“Obviously, he has passed too late with the loss of his family member and the incorrect identity of his family and later in the plot of the Luke Comiskey,” the letter said.
- A victim met the alleged drug dealer, the men died a day earlier.
- A mixture of men’s remains was discovered after three months
- Officials have warned of fatal crises of fentenell abuse
A victim met the alleged drug dealer, the men died a day earlier.
CNN has reached the families of both the victims. The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said that it is “aware of the case” and providing consular assistance. A spokesperson refused to provide additional information, stating that the department does not comment on individual matters details.
It is not clear how long Luke and Michel lived in Florida for how long or where they worked.
The person who alleges the police sells drugs, 35-year-old James Richard People’s III was arrested last month and two cases of murder were accused of first-digry murder in his death.
The Peoples exchanged the text messages with one of the victims, and said that he would get her “powder” – a word that they admitted that cocaine is usually referred to, according to a arrest affidavit of the Pinellus Park Police. The arrest affidavit stated that he admitted that he entered the victims’ apartments and sold the narcotics, but refused to provide phentanels.
The office of the public defender, who is representing the people, refused to comment. His next court hearing is scheduled on 18 March.
A mixture of men’s remains was discovered after three months
Bits and pieces in the documents revealed what happened in view of the death of men.
In the letter of August 2022, the District Six Medical Examiner Office said that the police handed over the case numbers to each victim after warning them to death.
The letter stated, “According to desires and in the direction of families, arrangements were made to transfer services for both the dead and to Ireland for final disposal.” “Both the dead were released from the Medical Examiner’s Office on 27 April 2022 at a local funeral house in St. Petersburg, Florida.”
After a toxic science report, Phantenile poisoning was listed as the cause of death for both, the medical examiner’s office emailed the corpse reports to the concerned families in July 2022.
According to the August letter from the medical examiner’s office, the loved ones of the victims discovered the mix-up.
The letter said that he noted some anomalies in the physical details contained in the dead body and informed the office of the Medical Examiner two weeks on August 12, 2022.
Digital photos, after viewing previous documents, and verifying the previous injuries and tattoos on the victims, the medical examiner’s office determined that their remains were misunderstood. It is not clear at which point the mix-up took place, the letter said.
The letter stated, “It is determined with a high level certainty that two dead have been misled in place of death or on delivery to the Medical Examiner Office.”
The letter stated, “This very unfortunate mistake resulted in reports of wrongdoing the corpse examination, but more importantly, the disorders released from the Medical Examiner’s Office were misrepresented with the identity label.”
The District Six Medical Examiner Office did not respond to CNN’s request for additional details. In an email to CNN, it said that the victims’ cases are “under active criminal investigation”.
Plan of the District Six Medical Examiner’s Office said in his August letter that his office started an investigation as soon as the family informed him about his concerns.
“Both families were informed from the beginning that any cost related to this unfortunate series of events would be paid by this office,” he wrote. “I have talked to both (families) several times to keep the open lines with updates and to keep open lines of communication. I have talked about the situation with both funeral homes in Ireland. ,
Plans were underway to confirm Michelle’s body and confirm his identity through tattoos and DNA analysis, Pinge wrote in August 2022. He said that his office was prepared to send his forensic pathologist to Dublin to help verify the identity of the victims.
CNN could not determine whether the body was provoked and identified. Planon did not respond to CNN’s request for comments.
Officials have warned of fatal crises of fentenell abuse
Fentanyl is about 100 times more powerful than morphine, another common opioid.
Former Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. According to Leena Wayne, treating cancer patients, who are in excessive pain, are valid medical uses. But drug dealers can also manufacture it in illegal laboratories, causing an epidemic of overdose deaths in recent years.
According to a report released in February, from 2003 to 2020, the American who died while visiting Florida were 63% more, who were likely to be a drug overdose than those who died while going to other states. In the report published in the Journal Injury Prevention, more than 47 million US death certificates were reviewed.
Florida’s Law Enforcement Department reported deaths related to 6,157 opioids in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available-a decrease of 4% from the last year.
“The disastrous results of Phantenile misuse are evident in this heart incident,” said in a statement, Pinellus Park police chief Adam Geisenberger said. “… We will continuously pursue justice and continue our efforts to protect our community from the dangers of this fatal substance.”
After the death of Florida, shocked members of the Irish community in New York, where both men spent time, hosted a memorial service.
In the May 2022 service at St. Barnabas Church in Bronx Boro in New York City, the condolences became emotional as they shared the memories of two men that he had described as close friends.
A friend jokingly said about the striking look of Comiskey, jokingly said that men kept their women closer every time after going to a room. He described Comiskey as a loyal friend, a great gelic football and football player and boxer and a fond chawla passenger. Comiskey preferred to play guitar and was in many countries including Australia and Spain.
Michelle was remembered as “Jacks of all trades” that flourished outside. He was emotional about fishing and camp, and would pitch a tent in nature even during rainy days, another friend said.
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