FROSTPROOF, Fla. (AP) — Authorities are investigating at a central Florida jail after an inmate believed to be on medicine violently fought deputies and died after being restrained.
Eric Nelson died Friday at the lockup in Frostproof, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office mentioned.
Nelson is alleged to have turn into enraged and begun kicking the door to his cell after he was arrested on prices of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
Deputies determined to move him to a medical dorm the place he may very well be positioned on suicide watch. There, Nelson punched a deputy twice within the face and hit, kicked and bit different deputies once they tried to handcuff him, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a news launch.
“It was abundantly evident to the deputies that he exhibited strength greater than a normal person, likely due to the influence of an illegal drug,” it mentioned.
Deputies lastly had been in a position to handcuff and put restraints on Nelson and took him to a cell, the place he was positioned on the ground so the restraints may very well be eliminated. As deputies had been making ready to depart, they seen that he wasn’t respiration, the news launch mentioned.
There was no on-line docket of Nelson’s case with the Polk County Clerk of Court, so it couldn’t be decided if he had a lawyer.
Polk County is situated halfway between Orlando and Tampa.
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