Agents raid Whitehall site where overdose killed co-owner

Federal agents armed with a search warrant raided the Whitehall offices Wednesday of Braking Point Recovery Center, a for-profit addiction-treatment center.

Agents also were at Braking Point’s center in Austintown outside Youngstown, and at the home of Braking Point owner Ryan Sheridan in Leetonia in Columbiana County, FBI Special Agent Vicki Anderson said.

Anderson said the warrant is sealed and that the FBI would not elaborate on what it was investigating with other state and federal agencies.

Those agencies, she said, included the Ohio Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, along with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Ohio Pharmacy Board and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Youngstown Vindicator reported Wednesday that the Trumbull County coroner ruled last week that the July 9 death of Thomas Dailey, co-owner of Braking Point’s Whitehall center, was an accidental overdose. The coroner found heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in Dailey’s system, the newspaper said.

The 16-bed Whitehall center, which opened in January at 4040 E. Broad St., accepts Medicaid.

“We knew that central Ohio was in a tremendous state of need for treatment beds ... (we are) doing our best to fill a void,” Dailey, 46, told The Dispatch in April.

Anderson said the search warrant will remain sealed for the foreseeable future and that no other information would be released soon.

She said the FBI is asking that patients or anyone with information about Braking Point’s operations call the FBI’s Cleveland area office at 216-522-1400.