D.A. to investigate death of inmate at Lacy
The Orange County district attorney’s office is investigating the death of an inmate who had been hospitalized with an illness.
The 43-year-old Westminster man, an inmate at the medical ward of Theo Lacy Jail, had severe anemia and was transferred to UCI Medical Center in Orange on Oct. 9, said Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino.
The inmate’s health worsened, and he died at 2:35 p.m. Sunday. The man, whose name was being withheld until his family was notified, was arrested Oct. 1 on suspicion of violating his probation on narcotics charges.
The district attorney’s office investigates most deaths that occur in the custody of law enforcement agencies in the county.
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