At approximately 2230 hours last night, November 9, 2021, Washoe County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to a medical emergency within The Washoe County Detention Facility. An inmate was discovered in a cell unresponsive. Detention medical staff administered Narcan to the unresponsive inmate, which proved to be effective, and the inmate became responsive.
Through the initial investigation, it was discovered that two inmates ingested an unknown substance, suspected to be Fentanyl. Findings from the preliminary investigation are that one inmate smuggled the suspected Fentanyl into The Detention Facility inside her body that was not discovered during her intake search and subsequent x-ray scan.
The Reno Fire Department was called to The Detention Facility as a precaution to decontaminate the area where suspected Fentanyl was located.
30-year-old Elizabeth Irvin of Reno was identified as the subject involved with smuggling the controlled substance into The Detention Facility. Irvin was involved in a previous case involving suspected Fentanyl earlier this week in south Reno where a 9-month-old baby was exposed and Narcan was administered. This incident is currently being investigated and additional charges are pending against Irvin regarding this incident.
