Strattanville Man Wanted in Connection with Overdose Death Taken into Custody

Jake Bauer

Jake Bauer

Published July 31, 2014 10:41 pm
Strattanville Man Wanted in Connection with Overdose Death Taken into Custody

kody-jones-mugCLARION, Pa. (EYT) – A Strattanville man wanted on drug charges related to the 2013 overdose death of a Corsica woman has been taken into custody.

Kody Alan Jones, 23, of Strattanville, was taken into custody yesterday and jailed on two felony counts of Manufacture, Delivery, or Possession with Intent to Manufacture or Deliver.

The charges against Jones were filed on February 21, 2014, in connection with the drug overdose death of Alicia Margaret Wolbert, 28, of Corsica.

Wolbert was found dead on February 23, 2013, at Jones’ home. Autopsy results conducted by Eric Vey, M.D., revealed that Wolbert died as a result of a combined drug toxicity.

According to a criminal complaint filed on February 21, 2014, Jones was interviewed and allegedly stated that he went to Pittsburgh on February 23, 2013, to purchase packets of heroin, and returned later that day to meet with Wolbert and other friends at a Penn Court apartment in Clarion Borough.

Court documents indicate that a woman who lives at the apartment stated that Jones and a known man ordered pizza upon returning. The woman stated that when she returned to her apartment after taking a friend home, Jones and Wolbert were arguing. She also stated that Jones seemed “out of it” and even fell head first into the pizza.

The complaint states that Jones allegedly told Clarion-based State Police Corporal Bunyak that when he returned from Pittsburgh, he snorted heroin with Wolbert. Jones allegedly indicated that he and Wolbert went to bed at his apartment later that evening, and when he woke up in the morning, he found Wolbert unresponsive in the kitchen. Jones also allegedly told Cpl. Bunyak that he provided the only heroin that Wolbert used.

Charges were filed and a warrant for Jones’ arrest was subsequently issued.

On July 9, 2014, the Attorney General’s Office issued a release, asking for the public’s help in finding Jones.

Jones was arraigned yesterday before Magisterial District Judge Duane L. Quinn and lodged in the Clarion County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail.

He faces a Preliminary Hearing on September 16.

Specific details on Jones’ apprehension have not yet been released.