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Man, 21, dies after gulping 20 grams of powder cocaine
Kalamazoo Gazette
5 January 2006
A 21-year-old man died Wednesday after swallowing more than 20 grams of powder cocaine to conceal it from police during a drug bust in Oshtemo Township, authorities said.
Steven Hooker barricaded himself in the bathroom of his North Drake Road apartment at about 1:45 p.m. as members of the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team were searching the apartment, police said.
When officers entered the bathroom, Hooker threatened them with a kitchen knife, according to the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety. Officers used a Taser, a type of stun gun, to subdue him.
Hooker then began showing signs of a drug overdose, officers said. When questioned, he told officers he had swallowed more than 20 grams of powder cocaine, which has a street value of about $2,000, according to police.
Hooker was taken by ambulance to Bronson Methodist Hospital, where he later died. An autopsy was to be performed today, Public Safety Chief Dan Weston said.
Police had gone to the apartment after receiving reports of suspected drug dealing, they said.
More drugs were found in the apartment, including more than a pound of marijuana and suspected heroin and cocaine, according to police. Weston said this morning that authorities were still trying to determine where the drugs came from. Two friends of Hooker's who were in the apartment at the time of the search were questioned but not arrested, he said.
Hooker was wanted by authorities on warrants for violating his probation stemming from convictions on charges of extortion and felonious assault.
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Kalamazoo Gazette
5 January 2006
A 21-year-old man died Wednesday after swallowing more than 20 grams of powder cocaine to conceal it from police during a drug bust in Oshtemo Township, authorities said.
Steven Hooker barricaded himself in the bathroom of his North Drake Road apartment at about 1:45 p.m. as members of the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team were searching the apartment, police said.
When officers entered the bathroom, Hooker threatened them with a kitchen knife, according to the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety. Officers used a Taser, a type of stun gun, to subdue him.
Hooker then began showing signs of a drug overdose, officers said. When questioned, he told officers he had swallowed more than 20 grams of powder cocaine, which has a street value of about $2,000, according to police.
Hooker was taken by ambulance to Bronson Methodist Hospital, where he later died. An autopsy was to be performed today, Public Safety Chief Dan Weston said.
Police had gone to the apartment after receiving reports of suspected drug dealing, they said.
More drugs were found in the apartment, including more than a pound of marijuana and suspected heroin and cocaine, according to police. Weston said this morning that authorities were still trying to determine where the drugs came from. Two friends of Hooker's who were in the apartment at the time of the search were questioned but not arrested, he said.
Hooker was wanted by authorities on warrants for violating his probation stemming from convictions on charges of extortion and felonious assault.
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