I'm Sure It's a Coincidence

Let's see if we can follow the events of this story and make sense of what initially appears nonsensical:

Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania mother of five died in a car accident after her boyfriend cut her brake lines to make a pipe for crack cocaine, police said.

Of all things, why would one use a brake line, a piece of pipe that contains some really corrosive fluid, to make a smoking implement? Maybe there's something else in the story that makes that level of stupidity more understandable...

Before her death, Fox was scheduled to be a a witness in a case against Lackawanna County corrections officers accused of corruption and sexually assaulting female inmates, a woman who did not want her name revealed told WNEP-TV.

Well that's an interesting coincidence. How much do you want to bet that these two incidents are connected?