Monday, July 7, 2025–7:45 p.m.
-Staff reports-
A woman who was featured on the MTV reality show “16 and Pregnant” is accused of supplying drugs to a man who overdosed in February.
33-year-old Whitney Blake Purvis was booked into the Floyd County Jail on Monday on charges of felony involuntary manslaughter, use of a communications facility to commit a crime involving drugs, and possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute.
According to the arrest warrant:
Purvis intentionally distributed a combination of Xylazine and Fentanyl, known on the street as “Tranq” to a 37-year-old Rome man on East Eighth Street.
The man died as a result of a toxic overdose.
