Violent inmate dies at Florida jail after being restrained

FROSTPROOF, Fla. – Authorities are investigating at a central Florida jail after an inmate believed to be on medication violently fought deputies and died after being restrained.

Eric Nelson died Friday on the lockup in Frostproof, the Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.

Nelson is claimed to have change into enraged and begun kicking the door to his cell after he was arrested on costs of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.

Deputies determined to move him to a medical dorm the place he might be positioned on suicide watch. There, Nelson punched a deputy twice within the face and hit, kicked and bit different deputies after they tried to handcuff him, the sheriff’s workplace stated in a information launch.

“It was abundantly evident to the deputies that he exhibited energy higher than a standard particular person, doubtless because of the affect of an unlawful drug,” it stated.

Deputies lastly had been capable of handcuff and put restraints on Nelson and took him to a cell, the place he was positioned on the ground so the restraints might be eliminated. As deputies had been making ready to go away, they observed that he wasn’t respiration, the information launch stated.

There was no on-line docket of Nelson’s case with the Polk County Clerk of Court docket, so it couldn’t be decided if he had a lawyer.

Polk County is positioned halfway between Orlando and Tampa.