Man imprisoned for false OD death to receive $300K settlement from Portland

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Eleven out of 12 Portland City Councilors voted to pay a $300,000 settlement to Adam Gregg, a man who went to prison over a drug overdose death that never happened.

Gregg spent five and a half years after he pleaded guilty to selling heroin that killed someone. But he sued Portland police officers and a former deputy district attorney because once out of prison, he learned the man whom he was told he killed was alive.

This stems from a May 2015 incident to which Portland police responded when a man overdosed on heroin, but ultimately lived. The lawsuit says two Portland police officers, Tequila Thurman and Carrie Hutchison, arrested Gregg for selling the heroin, telling him he had to cooperate because he sold heroin that killed someone. Gregg agreed to plead guilt