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The Ontario Provincial Police say Ontario’s police watchdog agency is investigating after a man in custody at Long Sault became unconscious in a holding cell and had to be transported to hospital.
The Special Investigations Unit invoked its mandate because the incident happened while the individual was in police custody, the OPP said in a news release.
The OPP said officers from the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry detachment had responded to a report of a suspected impaired driver in South Dundas Township shortly after midnight Monday. A 34-year-old man was arrested and charged with weapon and drug offences after officers seized a prohibited stun gun, suspected fentanyl and suspected crack cocaine as well as drug paraphernalia, the release added.
The man was then taken to the detachment holding cells at Long Sault. Several hours later, he became unresponsive and was transported to hospital by Cornwall-Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry paramedics, the OPP said.
Long Sault is slightly less than 100 kilometres southeast of Ottawa.
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