May 14, 2007

Woman Found Hanging in Video Monitored Cell

A 20-year-old Plainfield (NJ) woman who was arrested for attempting to steal a car hung herself yesterday in an Edison police headquarters holding cell in an apparent suicide, police said.

Edison police monitor the cell with a video camera, but the woman apparently hung herself while standing in the cell with her back to the camera, (Chief George) Mieczkowski said.

When officers went to fingerprint the woman as part of the normal process, they discovered her body...

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Posted by Stubbornson at May 14, 2007 05:13 PM