Police: White powder on scale at mother's apartment where child overdosed

GRAND RAPIDS (WOOD-AM) - Police in Grand Rapids say a scale loaded with white powder was found at the apartment where a 7-year-old fatally overdosed on fentanyl.

Jeremy Thompson was found unresponsive at Briasia Allen's apartment near 32nd Street and Eastern Avenue in June.

Allen is Thompson's mother.

Thompson was pronounced dead at a hospital. "Acute fentanyl toxicity" was listed as the cause of death.

Prosecutors in Kent County say the case is still under investigation.

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