NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio - Authorities say a West Virginia man hasbeen indicted on a charge accusing him of using dozens ofprescription pain killers to spike the coffee of an Ohio HighwayPatrol lieutenant who had arrested him after a traffic stop.
Tuscarawas County Assistant Prosecutor Michael Ernest says 25-year-old Daniel Watts, of Huntington, was indicted Tuesday. He saysWatts put 83 oxycodone pills in the lieutenant's coffee on June 25when Watts was left alone in a cruiser outside the county jail.
The pills were discovered and the lieutenant did not drink thecoffee.
Authorities say Watts had been arrested on an interstate insoutheast Ohio because he was not authorized to be using the rentalvehicle he was driving.
Watts is free on bail. His lawyer had no comment.
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