FCI Terre Haute is a medium-security prison.
(United States Bureau of Prisons)
A prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute has died 10 days after being sent there.
Employees found Javen Pedro, 22, unresponsive about 8:30 a.m. Saturday. He came to the prison May 22.
The prison said guards took life-saving measures until he was pronounced dead by hospital personnel. The prison also said no staff or other inmates were injured, and the public was not in danger. The death has been reported to the FBI.
The cause of his death was not specified. A Terre Haute prison spokesperson told WFIU News that no additional information is available.
The prison is medium-security within the campus of the Federal Correctional Complex, which also houses a high-security prison.
Pedro received a 75-month sentence April 30, 2024, in Oregon. He is convicted of selling fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a 15-year-old.
According to court documents, the minor bought counterfeit oxycodone pills from Pedro and took the pills in front of several other juveniles. Police officers from Salem, Ore., responded to a report of his overdose Feb. 24, 2022. He was taken to a local hospital where he died. Surveillance video from a neighbor showed the drug deal.
Officers found and arrested Pedro in Monmouth, Oregon, where he admitted that he sold 10 pills to the teen. He also told investigators that he had sold to him multiple times already.
A grand jury indicted him on distributing fentanyl on March 17, 2022. On Feb. 6, 2024, Pedro pleaded guilty to a superseding charge of distributing a controlled substance to a person under the age of 21, according to the FBI.
