Alabama teen charged in girlfriend’s overdose death, new drug charges now arrested for child porn
Jackson Lewis, the 19-year-old Elberta man charged with manslaughter in the 2022 overdose death of his girlfriend, was arrested April 30 and charged with attempting to sell illegal drugs to a student at an area high school.
Now, just days later, he has been hit with four counts of possessing child pornography by the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.
Lewis has been in Mobile Metro Jail since his April 30 arrest for reportedly trying to sell drugs to a student at Mary G. Montgomery High School, with a Mobile County judge revoking the $75,000 bond he posted after his September 2022 arrest on manslaughter and drug distribution charges.
Mobile Metro Jail records show he has a hold on him from the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office for the child pornography charges.
According to WPMI, an investigator testified at Lewis’ bond revocation hearing Thursday that Lewis had tried to provide drugs to a 14-year-old Mary G. Montgomery student who he hoped would sell the drugs for him. The father of the 14-year-old said he went through her phone and found photos of Lewis holding pills, marijuana and mushrooms.
The father contacted the school resource officer, leading to Lewis’ arrest and bond revocation.
The same investigator said when they executed a search warrant at Lewis’ home, they found more than 4,000 images on his cell phone — some of which were images of child pornography.
Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood, whose office is prosecuting the manslaughter case against Lewis, called Lewis a “danger to the community.”
“After (Lewis) was arrested on the manslaughter charge in August of 22, he was given no bond,” Blackwood said. “At some point a judge did grant him bond and he was able to get out. So we were very happy that a judge has now revoked his bond, and we believe our community is safer for it.”
Lewis was indicted for manslaughter in June 2023 in the death of 15-year-old Adrianna Taylor, who was found unresponsive in her Semmes home on Aug. 31, 2022 — days shy of her 16th birthday.
Taylor was a student at Mary G. Montgomery High School at the time of her death. Investigators said at the time Taylor had told her parents vape pens laced with fentanyl were passed around her school.
Lewis is accused of providing Taylor with marijuana and/or Xanax laced with fentanyl, causing her death, according to court documents. After he was indicted, Lewis was taken into custody on Sept. 7, 2023 and was released in November after posting the $75,000 bond which has now been revoked, meaning Lewis will remain incarcerated until his trial, scheduled for Sept. 23.
Although 17 at the time of Taylor’s death, Lewis is being tried as an adult and in November his motion to be granted youthful offender status was denied.
Of the charges facing Lewis, the charge of providing illegal drugs to a minor carries the stiffest possible sentence — 10 years to life in prison. A manslaughter conviction carries a sentence of 2-10 years, while the child pornography charges each carry a possible sentence of 1-10 years.