Butler County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Anthony Dwyer said an inmate apparently hanged himself to death in the jail.
“We had incident in the jail over the weekend an individual hung himself,” Dwyer told the Journal-News. “We’re conducting an investigation. He was processed at booking and eventually made it into our forensics pod and he was found kneeling or leaning and we were unsuccessful in reviving him.”
Goad, 33, of Franklin was charged with two felonies, making false alarms and inducing panic on Friday evening and was booked into the jail.
Credit: Butler County Jail
Credit: Butler County Jail
Dwyer said unfortunately jail suicides are not uncommon, especially in a facility that houses 1,000 inmates.
“We do everything we can to try and prevent issues like this,” Dwyer said. “Unfortunately, if you look around the country it’s a difficult issue to manage in a correctional environment. If somebody is bent on doing that it’s almost impossible to stop.”
A large group of first responders and the Butler County bomb squad flooded the parking lot of Walgreens at Union Centre Boulevard and state Route 747 in West Chester Twp. Friday afternoon for a possible explosive device, but no bomb was found.
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