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A team on investigators from the Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) was dispatched to Lethem to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a prisoner in the lock-ups of the Lethem Police Station.The body of 36 year old Roy Bovelle was discovered hanging from the grillwork of the station lock-ups when checks were made at around 08:00 hours yesterday.Police in a statement issued yesterday said that Bovelle of Tabatinga,Cheap Tampa Bay Rays Jersey Jerseys, Lethem was the only prisoner in the lock-ups yesterday, having been arrested at about 19:45 hours on Saturday after he was found in possession of 60 grams of cannabis sativa (marijuana).According to the police,Ricky Stanzi Iowa Jersey, ranks had earlier visited the lock-ups at 06:15 hours and Bovelle,Nebraska Cornhuskers Jerseys, who was described as a hustler,Eddie George Ohio State Jersey, was alive and well.However when they returned about two hours later,Chad Kelly Ole Miss Jersey, they discovered what appeared to be a shoe lace tightly wrapped around his neck and attached to the grillwork.Investigators will have to look into how Bovelle got possession of a shoe lace,Ty Lawson North Carolina Jersey, which is among several items prohibited in police lock-ups.“When you are being placed into the lock-ups,Baker Mayfield Oklahoma Jersey, they are supposed to search you and ensure that they strip you of your belt and shoe laces or anything that you can use to harm yourself or any other person in there,Buddy Hield Oklahoma Jersey,” a source who is attached to the OPR told this newspaper. There are also reports,Cheap Arizona Diamondbacks Jersey Jerseys, that a man who was called to clean the cell that Bovelle was in had seen blood stains there.The man was also reportedly seen with bloodstains on his clothing after he had completed cleaning the cell.Bovelle’s body is at the Lethem Hospital Mortuary awaiting a post mortem examination. |
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