No charges in Brandon cell death
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No charges will be laid after a man died after apparently taking drugs while in police custody in Brandon.
The man was arrested for fleeing police, breaching a release order and drug-related offences on Aug. 19, 2023.
Officers at the Brandon Police Service detention centre checked on the man after he was seen lifting up a corner of a mattress. The man eventually told an officer he had taken an ounce of methamphetamine.
Police had searched the man earlier, and searched his cell twice after he was seen lifting the mattress, but found nothing.
His condition rapidly worsened, and he died of methamphetamine toxicity in hospital.
Video corroborated what the officers and civilian employees told the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba about the incident, the police watchdog said in a report released Wednesday. It showed that about 16 minutes passed between the time officers first entered the cell and when one called for an ambulance.