Crime & Safety
Driver In Deadly Crash Charged With Driving While High
Charging documents say police found a syringe containing fentanyl in Chad Cooper's vehicle and injection marks on Cooper's arm.
CLAYTON, MO — Chad Cooper, 36, has been charged with four felonies related to a deadly crash in July of 2017, the Post-Dispatch reports. Police say the St. Louis man was driving while high on morphine and fentanyl when he crashed into and killed 52-year-old Regina Jones.
Cooper was charged in St. Louis County Court Wednesday with two counts of driving while intoxicated, illegal drug possession and driving with a revoked license.
Charging documents say police found a syringe containing the drugs in Cooper's vehicle and injection marks on Cooper's arm.
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