Charges against Kansas City Chiefs: Investigation into fan deaths nears completion

A drug dealer is expected to face charges in the case of three Kansas City Chiefs fans who died in freezing temperatures earlier this year after taking fentanyl at a friend's house, according to a lawyer familiar with the case.

Clayton McGeeney, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and David Harrington, 36, were found dead outside their friend Jordan Willis' Kansas City rental home on Jan. 9. But prosecutors have no plans to hold Willis liable, his attorney John Picerno told Fox Digital.

“I can say with certainty that my client will not be charged in this regard,” Picerno said. “My client will not be charged in any way related to the untimely deaths of his friends.”

When asked who would be charged, he said: “The criminal liability could be for murder if someone had given drugs to these young men.”

Picerno said that based on “internal discussions” with prosecutors, someone would likely be arrested “in the next few weeks.”

The football fans had watched the Chiefs game against the LA Chargers on January 7 and were found dead two days later by McGeeney's fiancée April Mahoney.

According to preliminary autopsy results, a lethal cocktail of fentanyl, cocaine and marijuana was found in her body.

Willis was wearing underwear and holding a wine glass when police arrived. He claimed he had been asleep for nearly two days and had no idea his friends were dead outside.

Relatives of the deceased men's families had previously insisted that Willis was involved in their deaths and threatened to file civil lawsuits against him.

However, Picerno said his client is cooperating with investigators and has voluntarily handed over all of his electronic devices and DNA samples.

He said the length of the investigation – which the Kansas City Police Department had previously described as a death investigation rather than a homicide investigation – was “definitely unusual.”

“I don’t know why this investigation took nine months,” Picerno said.

A fifth man, whose identity has not yet been established, was also in the house on match day, but he previously stated that he was not the last person to see the men alive.

Neither the Platte County District Attorney's Office nor the Kansas City Police Department could be reached by Fox News Digital.