DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — Channel 2 Action News has learned about the death of an inmate who was in custody at DeKalb County Jail.
The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office identified him as 33-year-old Michael Breedlove.
Officers found him unresponsive in his cell after allegedly responding to a medical emergency.
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Crews tried to help him at the jail and he was eventually taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The medical examiner has not released a cause of death.
Breedlove had been arrested in July and charged with the purchase, manufacture, distribution or sale of marijuana.
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