Two days ago, the American music industry was shook when rapper and singer Juice WRLD tragically died. The 21-year-old passed away after suffering a seizure at the airport. Yet the story is not over, as the police confiscated drugs and weapons from Juice WRLD’s private plane.
Before Juice WRLD’s private plane arrived from Los Angeles, police officers and federal were waiting at the Atlantic Aviation hangar at Midway early Sunday. This was because they suspected the 21-year-old musician possessed contraband items.
As they were going through two carts of luggage, Jarad Higgins (Juice WRLD) “began convulsing (and) going into a seizure,” police sources said.
An agent administered two doses of Narcan, an emergency treatment for a likely opioid overdose.
Higgins woke up but was incoherent, police said. Paramedics took him to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. There, he was pronounced dead at 3:14 AM, about an hour after he landed in Chicago.
According to law enforcement, members of Higgins’ entourage said the ‘Lucid Dreams’ star had taken ‘several unknown pills’ moments before falling ill.
The police search of the luggage aboard the plane turned up 41 “vacuum-sealed” bags of marijuana. In addition to that, there were six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9-millimetre pistols, and a .40-caliber pistol.
Also, he was in possession of a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets, according to police. The two guards with Higgins were charged with illegally possessing guns and ammunition.
Earlier in June, Higgins publicly vowed to his girlfriend Lotti on Twitter that he would finally stop taking codeine. But sadly, he did not live long enough to keep that promise.