Juice WRLD, whose real name is Jarad Anthony Higgins, passed away this past Sunday at an airport and was found with codeine and 70 pounds of marijuana.
Police and FBI agents met the 21-year old rapper’s jet Sunday morning before he died according to Chicago police.
Police found bottles of prescription codeine and a large amount of marijuana on the plane before he passed away.
The police and FBI agents arrived to meet Higgins’ plane at about 1:30 a.m. CT at Midway Airport on Sunday under the suspicion that Higgins was in possession of contraband, the Chicago Police Department said this week.
Officers had found 70 pounds of marijuana and six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup in a search of the luggage. They also found two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets on the plane.
According to police, Higgins began convulsing while police officers were speaking to him and others on the plane. The rapper had been given two doses of Narcan, a brand of naloxone used to block the effects of opioid overdose in emergency situations. Despite waking up briefly he was declared dead at a local hospital.
According to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, there must be more tests conducted in the rapper’s autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Ellie Goulding, who worked with Higgins on the song “Hate Me,” tweeted, “I’ll always remember meeting you and your family on the video set and thinking how close you were,” Goulding said. “You had so much further to go, you were just getting started. You’ll be missed Juice.”
Drake wrote on Instagram, “I would like to see all the younger talent live longer and I hate waking up hearing another story filled with blessings was cut short.”
