FLOYD COUNTY, GA — A cast member of MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” show has been arrested for felony involuntary manslaughter in Floyd County.
Now 33, Whitney Purvis is charged with supplying the drug “tranq” to a man named John Harris, leading to his overdose in February.
Tranq is a mixture of fentanyl and the veterinary anesthesia xylazine.
She was also charged with two misdemeanors including possession with intent to distribute.
Purvis’s arrest comes just a little over a month after her teen son died about a month ago from natural causes.