Contractor who brought drugs to Tarrant Jail investigated in inmate’s death, sheriff says

The death of a 23-year-old who was held at the Tarrant County Jail is possibly tied to a contractor who smuggled fentanyl into the facility, Sheriff Bill Waybourn told a local TV station.

Trelynn Wormley was found unresponsive in his cell just before 4 p.m. on July 20. It is believed that he died of a fentanyl overdose.

His cause of death has not yet been determined, according to Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office records, but the sheriff told KXAS-TV that his death might possibly be traced back to Aaliyah Lyles, 25, who worked as a contracted commissary employee at the jail’s Green Bay facility.

Lyles, 25, faces two charges of drug possession and one charge of bringing a prohibited substance into the jail. She has not been charged with Wormley’s death but is under investigation, the sheriff told the NBC station.

Lyles is accused of providing fentanyl to a 20-year-old inmate, who was hospitalized in August, according to a search warrant that was obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Two different inmates told investigators that drugs were being smuggled into the jail and they both described Lyles as being the person to do that, according to the warrant. Lyles was bringing in percocet pills, which the warrant says can be counterfeited to contain fentanyl.

She would put the pills into envelopes, which she would sneak to inmates through the commissary, according to the warrant.

While her car was being searched, Lyles told detectives that an inmate offered to pay for her hair to get done. He told her to call someone outside of the jail, and that person offered Lyles $200 to sneak the drugs in, the warrant says.