Mecklenburg sheriff won’t discuss jail death amid investigations, office says

A spokesperson for Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden said the sheriff’s office will not comment on a jail death because several investigations are underway.

The Charlotte Observer’s news partner, WSOC, reported on Wednesday that 38-year-old murder suspect Miguel Angel Gonzales-Rosales died in August after jail staff gave him the wrong medicine.

An autopsy found that he was given someone else’s methadone dose when he should have received medicine for bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, according to WSOC’s reporting…

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