Los Angeles Angels’ communications staffer Eric Kay appears to have used his team email account to carry out illicit online purchases of opioids prior to providing Tyler Skaggs with a counterfeit pill containing fentanyl that led to the pitcher’s 2019 death, according to evidence shown to jurors on Monday, Nov. 10 as a wrongful death trial against the ball club entered a fifth week of testimony.

The series of emails from Kay’s Angels email account used coded language in an attempt to mask apparent references to purchasing opioid pills on OfferUp, an online marketplace where users can sell items to each other. The emails appear to reference Oxycodone by using terms such as “Roxy” or “Blue,” the latter an allusion to the color of the pills.

In one of the first emails shown to jurors, Kay r

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