SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Jurors heard conflicting testimony from two key witnesses Tuesday regarding the Los Angeles Angels ' culpability and prior knowledge of drug use in the wrongful death lawsuit against the team by the family of deceased pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

A detective investigating Skaggs' 2019 overdose death stated in a video deposition that Eric Kay, the former team employee now serving a 22-year federal prison sentence for his role in Skaggs' death, told law enforcers he had previously informed his boss about Kay's and Skaggs' drug use in 2017.

Kay's boss, Tim Mead, had previously testified he knew nothing of such illicit drug use and was surprised to learn that Kay had supplied the fentanyl-laced opioid that killed Skaggs.

Defense attorneys, now pleading the team's case afte

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