GLADEWATER — A Gladewater man who drowned in Prairie Creek on June 22nd, had three times the legal amount of alcohol in his system as well as a deadly combination of drugs. That is contained in the autopsy report released by Justice of the Peace B. H Jameson. As reported by the Longview News-Journal, the autopsy on Timothy Matthew Carson, 36, showed he had many substances in his system when he decided to take a swim with his son. The substances included marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, methadone, opiates, phencyclidine, buprenorphine and propoxyphene. His blood-alcohol content was 0.32. <\/p>\n
The drowning occurred near Prairie Creek Bridge on Texas 135. The creek runs below Texas 135 just north of Crews Road between Gladewater and Kilgore. It pools into a makeshift swimming hole just west of Texas 135. Carson had been fishing with his son when the two decided to take a swim. The father went under and failed to surface. His son went to a nearby road where he flagged down a motorist who call 9-1-1. Carson’s body was found about 8:15 that evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GLADEWATER — A Gladewater man who drowned in Prairie Creek on June 22nd, had three times the legal amount of alcohol in his system as well as a deadly combination of drugs. That is contained in the autopsy report released by Justice of the Peace B. H Jameson. As reported by the Longview News-Journal, the … Continue reading Autopsy Released on Gregg County Drowning Victim<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 17:46:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268584"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268824,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268584\/revisions\/268824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}