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Lenawee County Jail inmate died of slashing wounds

11-18-2013 Michigan:

Self-inflicted slashing wounds are the cause of the Nov. 13 death of a Lenawee County Jail inmate, according to a news release issued late Friday by Sheriff Jack Welsh.

A sheriff’s department investigation of the death of Daniel Terry Pitts is ongoing, Welsh stated, but the cause of the 34-year-old Clinton man’s death has been established.

Corrections staff discovered Pitts in the act of harming himself at 12:10 a.m., according the news release.

“He had to be restrained and disarmed by jail staff. He was immediately treated by jail staff and jail medical staff until EMS arrived and took over,” the release stated. Pitts was transported to ProMedica Bixby Hospital where attempts to resuscitate him failed.

“Mr. Pitts was not found dead in his cell,” Welsh stated in the news release. Foul play is not suspected.

Pitts had been in jail since his arrest on Jan. 4 on multiple charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for alleged abuse of a girl in Clinton. He had been scheduled for trial in January. ..Source.. by Daily Telegram staff

If a sex offender dies will she or he still appear on the state and national registry?


No wonder this country is going broke, politicians can't think,
they are soaking the taxpayer when it is unnecessary!
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North Dakota inmate dies of injuries in suicide attempt

11-2-2013 North Dakota:

A Morton County Detention Center inmate jailed for a probation violation and failure to register as a sex offender has died of his injuries suffered in a suicide attempt.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Morton County Detention Center inmate jailed for a probation violation and failure to register as a sex offender has died of his injuries suffered in a suicide attempt.

Morton County Sheriff Dave Shipman tells the Bismarck Tribune that Jon Nadeau attempted suicide by hanging on Oct. 25. The sheriff says Nadeau died Monday, after his family removed him from life support at a local hospital.

Shipman says Nadeau had been an inmate at the jail since September.

Shipman says it was the jail's first death since it opened in 1986. ..Source.. by WDAY6.com

Man Found Dead in Lakeland Was Facing Child Porn Charges, Deputies Say

11-1-2013 Florida:

LAKELAND | A man found dead in his South Lakeland home Thursday night after deputies surrounded the property had been wanted on out-of-state child pornography charges, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Michael James Nicholson Gattis, 36, was found with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head when a Polk County Sheriff's SWAT team entered the home, according to the Sheriff's Office.

According to the Fairfax County, Va., Police Department, the agency had an arrest warrant on file for Gattis on two counts of child porn possession.

Polk County deputies had contacted Gattis and asked him to report for questioning in regard to the warrant.

Gattis declined, according to the Sheriff's Office, telling detectives he had weapons in his home at 6820 Lakeland Highlands Road and wanted to speak to his wife, who deputies said had recently left him.