Marion County Jail (Courtesy/Marion County Sheriff’s Office)
A Salem man died at a local hospital Tuesday after he was found unresponsive in his cell at the Marion County Jail, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
Just before 6 a.m. Tuesday, 66-year-old Michael Duclos was found unresponsive in his cell “following an apparent medical emergency,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release Wednesday afternoon.
Deputies and medical staff at the jail started giving Duclos CPR and requested an ambulance.
He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead shortly after.
“In accordance with the policy of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, the Linn County Sheriff’s Office was asked to investigate the death as an outside law enforcement agency,” the news release said.
Duclos was charged April 11 with misdemeanor failure to report as a sex offender in Marion County Circuit Court, according to court records. He was scheduled to enter a plea at an 8:30 a.m. hearing Tuesday, about two and a half hours after he was found unresponsive.
-Ardeshir Tabrizian
