POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and the Wamego Police Department are investigating a Kansas man related to the fentanyl overdose death of a 21-year-old man, according to a media release from the KBI.
On Sept. 9, 2021, the Wamego Police Department requested KBI assistance after 21-year-old Jayson Ebert was discovered dead on Sept. 5, 2021, at 1312 16th St. in Wamego, Kansas.
Ebert died from an apparent fentanyl overdose.
Just before 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, KBI agents arrested McKaine T. Farr, 20, of Wamego at at 15227 6th Street Road in Wamego on requested charges of distribution of a controlled substance causing great bodily harm or death. The charge is a level 1 person felony. Farr is being held in the Pottawatomie County Jail.
According to investigators Farr knowingly distributed counterfeit oxycodone tablets laced with fentanyl that caused Ebert’s death.