SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Tim Mead, the former head of communications for the Los Angeles Angels , admitted Wednesday to searching the desk of his former employee, Eric Kay, three times looking for potential illicit drugs or drug paraphernalia in Kay's final years with the franchise prior to the 2019 death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

The revelations came during the first day of testimony in the wrongful death civil suit brought by the family of Skaggs against the Angels. Kay, a former communication director for the Angels, had previously been convicted in federal criminal court in 2022 for providing Skaggs the fentanyl-laced pill which led to his overdose in a Texas hotel room and is serving 22 years in prison.

"Three times we went through Eric's drawers in his desk to look for what it was, I

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