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Two Herriman women — a woman and her adult daughter — have been charged in a drug overdose that led to the January death of a 20-year-old man.
Police were called to the women's home, near 12600 South and Starlite Lane (6100 West), just after noon on Jan. 15, officers wrote in charges filed Monday in 3rd District Court. They went inside to find a 19-year-old man unconscious on the floor, and 20-year-old Isaac Hargis was unresponsive in a downstairs bedroom.
Hargis was pronounced dead about 20 minutes later.
Others at the house said Hargis went to the house with three 19-year-old men after a night of drinking. There, 36-year-old Anita Johnson greeted the men with shots of Crown Royal whiskey, police wrote.
Three of the men went downstairs to the bedroom of Johnson's 61-year-old mother, Judith Lawson, who gave them cocaine, police wrote. The group drank more alcohol, and Johnson allegedly gave Xanax and Soma to Hargis and another man — the one who was found unconscious but alive when police arrived.
On a nightstand near Hargis' body, police also found two capsules of Temazepam, a prescription sleep medication.
Officers who searched the home also found a 27.3-gram rock of cocaine, marijuana, OxyContin, morphine and paraphernalia, police wrote.
Two children, ages 13 and 14, were in the home during the party, police wrote.
Johnson was charged with one first-degree felony count and two second-degree felony counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, two second-degree felony counts of possession or use of a controlled substance, two third-degree felony counts of endangerment of a child and one misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Lawson was charged with one first-degree felony count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, second-degree felony possession or use of a controlled substance, third-degree felony possession of a firearm by a restricted person, two third-degree felony counts of endangerment of a child and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.