CHARLESTON, Ill. (WAND) - A suspect charged with drug-induced homicide after a woman's overdose death was recently arrested in Coles County.Â
Coles County State's Attorney Jesse Danley told WAND News the suspect, 39-year-old Jason Allen Jennings, is one of multiple people accused of supplying the victim with heroin in a case Charleston police investigated. The woman, who was in her early 20s, died in September of 2020.Â
Jennings is not the only person charged in the case, Danley said.Â
Witnesses provided information at a later time after the overdose, leading to Jennings' arrest on Aug. 12, 2021. He was charged with a Class X felony count of drug-induced homicide. Records showed he was released on Aug. 13.Â
Bail for Jennings had been set at $50,000.Â
