SC woman’s fiancé was charged with murder. Then police found what she hid inside her body

Noah Feit

August 14, 2024 at 2:06 p.m.·2 min read

A South Carolina woman was arrested after her fiancé had been charged with murder when officers discovered something hidden inside of her body, according to the Florence Police Department.

Lynette Dawn King, a 41-year-old Florence resident, had a dispenser filled with drugs inside of her body when she was taken into custody in connection to the murder charge, police said in a news release.

The drugs were methamphetamine and fentanyl, an arrest warrant shows.

Homicide and another deadly shooting

The series of events began July 21, when Idris Cooper was killed at Colonial Gardens apartment complex, according to the release. The Florence County Coroner’s Office said the 34-year-old Cooper was a shooting victim, WBTW reported.

On July 22, members of the Florence Police Department and Florence County Sheriff’s Office went to serve Matthew Barry with an arrest warrant, saying he was charged with murder, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. But Barry was armed and barricaded himself inside his apartment in the Brittany Place complex, leading to an exchange of gunfire where Barry was shot by officers and died at the scene, SLED said.

No officers were injured, according to SLED.

An accessory

While SLED was investigating Barry’s shooting, Florence police continued to investigate Cooper’s death. Police said that King was with Barry, her fiancé, at the time of the Cooper’s death, and had knowledge of the shooting.

She was arrested Aug. 7, when King was charged with accessory/accessory after the fact to murder, according to an arrest warrant.

King was taken to the Florence County Detention Center where she was given a body scan, an arrest warrant said. The scan revealed a foreign object inside of King’s body and she was taken from the jail to a hospital for medical treatment, according to the arrest warrant.

At the hospital, King removed the dispenser and ingested some of the drugs that were inside, police said. After swallowing the fentanyl, about 4.5 grams of meth was discovered near her legs, under her hospital bed covers, according to the arrest warrant.

After receiving medical treatment and remaining under observation for several days, King was released from the hospital, police said. On Sunday, King was taken back to the detention center where she was also charged with drugs/manufacture, distribution, etc. of meth, jail records show.

King’s bond was set at $500,000 on the combined charges, and she remains behind bars, according to jail records.

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