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.