After four overdoses on the island in the fall of 2019, one of which was fatal, investigators found a shipment of various drugs at a suspected dealer's home in Unalaska, which the dealer later said came from Ellingsworth and a man named Michael Hindman.
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Federal inmate Chopper Ellingsworth was pronounced dead at the Anchorage Correctional Complex last week, according to a statement from the Alaska Department of Corrections. His death is the second death to take place in DOC custody this year.
Ellingsworth hadn't been sentenced, but had been in custody since November of 2019. He was charged with Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances.