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Kosciusko County Prosecutor David Kolbe has authorized criminal charges against a Dewart Lake man suspected of doing cocaine with a man who died from a cocaine overdose.
David Hall, 42, Dewart Lake, will be charged with possession of cocaine in connection with seizures he was treated for at Kosciusko Community Hospital on Nov. 26, allegedly from ingesting cocaine.
Initially, the Warsaw Police Department suspected Hall to have been with Samuel Cannon, 18, of 5206 E. Bayview Drive prior to his overdose Nov. 26. A connection between the men was not established by authorities.
But Cannon's mother has a connection between the two men.
Melinda Cannon, Syracuse, said her son and a friend went to R.C.'s Pier, a Syracuse bar, the night before his overdose and picked up Hall, bringing him to the Cannon residence. "Sammy went down there and picked him up," she said.
Cannon says her son put Hall in his bed to "sleep it off," giving Hall some clothes to wear.
But that connection won't change the prosecution of Hall. "If the evidence should unfold that another charge would be justified, we would look into that," said Kolbe.
Kolbe acknowledges that the two may have been doing cocaine together. But, he stated, "The implication that Mr. Hall was doing anything worse to Mr. Cannon than to himself is just not borne by the facts."
But that doesn't comfort Cannon's mother.
"I can't even get Warsaw police to return my son's clothes, which David Hall was wearing when he left this house," she said. She feels Hall is being protected.
"My son would still be alive today if he wouldn't have went with David Hall," said Mrs. Cannon. She also pointed out that her son did not die in his own car, but in a white car she believes Hall was driving.
Mrs. Cannon does not believe her son was taking cocaine. A few days before his death he had admitted to her that he had used pot before.
Cannon said there was no way her son could have taken cocaine through his nose because he suffered a damaged nasal passage as a child.
