Carroll County Inmate Death Under Investigation: Sheriff

A Westminster man died at the Carroll County Detention Center over Labor Day weekend in what officials say may have been a suicide, according to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies responded to the detention center in the 100 block of North Court Street for a report of an unconscious inmate just before 2 p.m. on Friday, the sheriff’s office reported.

Ronnie Mosko, 43, of the 3500 block of Westview Road in Westminster, was unresponsive in a single-occupancy holding cell, the report said. He had been arrested Wednesday night for a nonviolent domestic-related offense, the sheriff’s office said. Court records show Mosko was charged with violating a protective order, two counts of having a handgun on his person, possessing a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition.

Correctional officers and Westminster Fire Department paramedics took Mosko Friday to Carroll Hospital Center, where he was in critical condition until he was pronounced deceased at 4:04 a.m. on Sunday, according to the report.

The sheriff’s office said the preliminary investigation shows Mosko may have taken his own life.

Mosko’s body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for autopsy, according to the report, which said officials were still investigating.