RILEY COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a drug related death in Manhattan and have made an arrest.
Just before 5:30p.m. Tuesday officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested 22-year-old Daron Marsean Island Jones in connection to an incident from June 2023, where RCPD officers investigated the overdose death of a 25-year-old in Manhattan.
Jones was jailed on requested charges of distribution of opiates in quantities surpassing 10 units, dissemination of a controlled substance resulting in fatality, and the utilization of a communication facility in the commission of a felony drug violation.