Woman arrested after overdose death in Warren County

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A woman from Nashville, Tennessee has been arrested in connection with a fatal Warren County drug overdose.

On Tuesday around 12:51 p.m., the Warren County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 200 block of Walnut Creek Court in Bowling Green for a reported overdose.

Fire officials and EMS additionally responded to the scene.

After arriving, police say they learned a 21-year-old Tennessee woman had died. Authorities say the woman who died allegedly purchased drugs from the suspect, Hannah Lynn Forkum, around 24 hours before her death.

The WCSO says it worked with Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force detectives to identify the suspected drug dealer from Nashville.

Nashville Neighborhood Safety Unit detectives confirmed the suspect had five outstanding warrants, according to police.

Police say during a controlled drug purchase yesterday, they took Forkum into custody and found her to be in possession of 25 grams of fentanyl, 27 grams of meth laced with fentanyl and 7 grams of black tar heroin.

A search of Forkum’s Nashville hotel room additionally led authorities to seize a .25 caliber pistol, multiple plastic bags used for packaging narcotics and several sets of digital scales, police say.

Forkum will be extradited back to Kentucky following her court appearance in Nashville. She is being held with no bond on charges of possession of fentanyl, heroin and meth for resale, gun possession in the commission of a dangerous felony and being a fugitive from justice from Kentucky.

Police say three men in the hotel room were also arrested on outstanding warrants outside of Warren County. These included Edwin Mendoza, 24, Richard Martinez, 39, and Taylor Johnson, 29.

Forkum also faces a second-degree murder warrant in Warren County.