November 17, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
A joint investigation by Special Agents with the Drug Investigation Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department has resulted in the arrest of an Algood man, in connection to the drug-related death of a Smithville woman.
In June, Agents joined deputies in investigating the death of 45 year old Jennifer Leighann Jacobs . She was found deceased on May 22nd in her Smithville home of a drug overdose, with fentanyl determined as a contributing factor. The investigation revealed that on May 18th, the victim had purchased drugs by an individual identified as Patrick Goolsby.
On Monday, the DeKalb County Grand Jury returned indictments charging 41 year old Patrick Goolsby with one count of Second Degree Murder and one count of Sale and Delivery of a Schedule II Controlled Substance. TBI Agents arrested Goolsby yesterday and he was booked into the DeKalb County Jail on a $400,000 bond.
He is scheduled for arraignment in DeKalb County Criminal Court December 8.
Count 1 of the indictment alleges that “between the dates of May 18-22, 2020 Patrick Ryan Goolsby unlawfully and recklessly killed Jennifer Leighanne Jacobs by the unlawful distribution or unlawful delivery or unlawful dispensation of fentanyl, and the said fentanyl was the proximate cause of the death of Jacobs”,
Count 2 alleges that Goolsby, on or about the 18th day of May, 2020 unlawfully and knowingly sold a controlled substance, to wit: fentanyl, a schedule II controlled substance.
Count 3 alleges that Goolsby, or or about the 18th day of May, 2020 unlawfully and knowingly delivered a controlled substance, to wit: fentanyl, a schedule II controlled substance.