A 26-year-old Adelanto man died after being discovered unconscious in a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department jail in Rancho Cucamonga over the weekend, authorities said.
Mariel Rashad Mays, 26, was found unresponsive just before 5 a.m. Sunday, April 19, in at the West Valley Detention Center, 9500 Etiwanda Ave., according to the sheriff’s department.
“Deputies immediately rendered aid along with jail medical staff,” the agency said in a written statement.
Paramedics were also summoned to attempt to resuscitate Mays, but they were not successful.
“Mays was pronounced deceased at the scene,” the statement said. His body “did not have obvious signs of trauma.”
His cause and manner of death will be determined through an autopsy, officials said.
Mays was arrested on Tuesday, March 24, on suspicion of violating probation related to a previous conviction for assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, San Bernardino County Superior Court and jail records show. He was transerred to the West Valley Detention Center on Tuesday, April 14.
He was being held without bail pending a probation revocation hearing, which had been scheduled for Friday, April 24.
No further details were available.
Anyone with information was asked to contact Detective Jacob Angelini of the Sheriff’s Specialized Investigations Division at (909) 890-4904. Information may also be provided anonymously top the WeTip hotline at (844) 909-3096.
This article originally appeared on Victorville Daily Press: Adelanto man, 26, dies after being found unresponsive in jail cell
Reporting by Brian Day, Victorville Daily Press / Victorville Daily Press
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