Column: Mashantucket Tribe ignored protocol in casino death

When the hotel staff at the Grand Pequot Towers at Foxwoods Resort Casino found a 36-year-old woman unresponsive in her room March 2, they sounded an alarm.

The woman was subsequently taken by ambulance to The William W. Backus Hospital, where she died two days later.

Five days after the woman was found in her hotel room, the medical examiner ruled her death accidental, by way of an overdose of opiates and other drugs.

State police never learned of the incident, though, until the medical examiner called them with a question. And on March 7, the day of her autopsy, state police logged this report of the incident: "Due to the suspicious nature of (her) death, an investigation is ongoing."