$100,000 AWARDED IN INMATE'S DEATH.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer Responding to a memo charging that Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, jailers violated Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. policy, the county has approved a $100,000 settlement for the family of a man who suffered a fatal drug-related seizure behind bars. The county claims board approved the payment to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of John Olden old·en adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to time long past; old or ancient: olden days. [Middle English : old, old; see old + -en, adj. Jr., who died in February 1995 at the age of 31 from methamphetamine intoxication intoxication, condition of body tissue affected by a poisonous substance. Poisonous materials, or toxins, are to be found in heavy metals such as lead and mercury, in drugs, in chemicals such as alcohol and carbon tetrachloride, in gases such as carbon monoxide, and . Olden, who lived in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , died about 25 minutes after he was rushed from the station's jail to a hospital. Attorneys for the county recommended the settlement, noting that Olden's death came three days after his arrest and might have been avoided if jailers at the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. sheriff's station followed standard procedure the day he was jailed. Policy calls for getting medical attention for severely intoxicated in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. inmates before jailing them, said Capt. Mike Quinn Michael Patrick Quinn (born April 15, 1974 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys. He also had a brief stint in the Canadian Football League for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. , station commander. ``The procedure is, if they are intoxicated, to clear them medically,'' Quinn said. ``What we want is for a doctor to determine the source of intoxication and then treat them.'' Quinn said he was unfamiliar with the Olden case and thus could not comment on it. In a memo to the claims board, County Counsel Robert Ambrose said that sheriff's deputies who arrested Olden noted in their report that he was extremely intoxicated. According to documents in the case, Olden displayed bizarre behavior during nearly three days in jail, which the jailer's manual describes as cause for medical attention and transfer to a hospital. ``The jailers violated several provisions of the Sheriff's Department's manual regarding the handling, observation, control and treatment of extremely intoxicated inmates by not transferring him to a hospital the day of his arrest,'' Ambrose wrote in his memo. ``The failure of the jailers to follow the provisions of the Sheriff's Department's manual for the safety and handling of the extremely intoxicated inmates and their failure to transfer John Olden Jr. until his third day in custody led to the seizures which caused the death of John Olden Jr.'' Ambrose wrote that attorneys for the county believe a court would find the jailers were negligent and Olden's death could have been avoided. Relatives said Olden was planning to take over and operate a family business before he died. |
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