US EditionFormer '16 and Pregnant' star charged in man's overdose death
ROME, FLOYD COUNTY, GEORGIA, JUL 8 – Whitney Purvis faces felony involuntary manslaughter for providing Tranq, a fentanyl and xylazine mix linked to nearly 70% of synthetic opioid deaths, according to the DEA.
- Whitney Blake Purvis, a former reality star from '16 and Pregnant,' was arrested Monday in Rome, Georgia, on a felony involuntary manslaughter charge.
- Her arrest follows new 2024 Georgia laws allowing felony manslaughter charges for providing fatal amounts of drugs and occurred about a month after she announced her 16-year-old son Weston's death.
- Court documents state that Whitney Blake Purvis provided John Mark Harris with a lethal combination of fentanyl and xylazine on the evening of February 16 in Rome, Georgia, which resulted in his fatal overdose.
- Purvis is charged with a felony for supplying controlled substances and a misdemeanor for using a communication device in the commission of a crime, while the DEA highlights that synthetic opioids are involved in nearly 70% of drug-related fatalities.
- Purvis remains in custody at the Floyd County Jail without the option for bail as the case underscores dangers associated with fentanyl overdoses amid Georgia’s updated drug legislation.
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This is the week that even more people in America are getting to know the sad and sordid saga of Whitney Purvis. Sixteen years after Purvis first made a splash in the reality TV world as one of the first-season stars of MTV’s “16 and Pregnant,” she has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the Feb. 17 drug overdose death of a friend from her hometown of Rome, Georgia. Purvis, 33, allegedly supplied John Mark Harris, 35, with “tranq” — an…
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