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You think that's bad - this guy literally cooked to death in mid-August heat after being left in a cruiser for 5 hours, and quite likely wasn't drunk at all to begin with. And not mentioned in the article, the cop in question had already been fired from a neighboring town for beating the shit out of someone prior to this incident.
FYI, he was fired following a 3 month investigation, though I haven't heard what civil lawsuits both the department & the officer are facing.
| quote: | AG now probing Punxsutawney police custody death
AP
POSTED: August 27, 2009
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) - The state attorney general is now investigating the death of a man in a Punxsutawney police cruiser.
A spokesman for the attorney general says Jefferson County District Attorney Jeffrey Burkett referred the case to state prosecutors because Burkett knows many Punxsutawney police officers very well.
Punxsutawney police Chief Tom Fedigan hasn’t released the name of the officer who is suspended with pay in connection with the death of 48-year-old Stephen Obbish on Aug. 15.
Obbish had been picked up on suspicion of public drunkenness about 9:50 a.m. and was found dead in the same police cruiser about five hours later. Among other things, investigators are trying to determine if Obbish was drunk or suffering from a diabetic condition instead.
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