OD At Jail Leads To 1 Being Charged, Internal Police Investigation

NEW HAVEN, CT — An internal police investigation is underway after a person being held in the jail overdosed Sunday after being "passed a narcotic substance from a prisoner in another cell," a police spokesperson said. All prisoners were searched before entering the detention facility, police said, per its policy.

At around 7:45 p.m., a person being held in the jail had a "medical emergency," and, spokesperson Scott Shumway said, the "detention facility supervisor immediately called for an ambulance to render proper medical care to the prisoner. "

Shumway said "officers monitored the prisoner" until an ambulance arrived, and took the person to Yale New Haven Hospital where he was "treated and released back to the detention facility with no further complications."

Shumway said there is "camera footage of the prisoner receiving something from another prisoner passed from cell to cell." He said, "interviews also revealed the same during the initial investigation." And that all are searched before going into the jail. Shumway said detectives from the Major Crimes Unit are investigating, and the other prisoner was charged with bringing a controlled substance into the detention facility.

"The Internal Affairs Unit will also be investigating to make sure all policies and procedures were followed by the Detention Officers," Shumway said.