And to add to the Wake deputies having a bar fight...
http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/483144.html
DURHAM -- An inmate in the Durham County jail died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack.
John Arthur Umstead III, 45, was in a cell on charges of assaulting police officers when he complained of chest pains about 2 p.m., said Capt. Paul Martin of the Durham County Sheriff's Office.
(snip)
Umstead had been in jail 17 days awaiting trial.
(Are the dockets that crowded that he has to wait 17 days in JAIL?)
(moral : don't assault a Durham officer; the guys who assaulted the Wake officer only ended up in the hospital)
And . . .
http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/482973.html
DURHAM - A Duke student reported that she had 50 $100 bills stolen from an unsecured desk in her dorm room over the weekend. . .
(Well, I'll bet it wasn't taken by a LAX player. . .)
SPECULATION ALERT, and most likely unrelated, but --
http://www.medhunters.com/employer/13546.html
John Umstead Hospital has affiliations with Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There are 6 distinct units of the hospital with specialized patient populations: Geropsychiatry, Nursing Care, Children and Adolescents, Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Adult Rehabilitation, and the Acute Admissions units. . .
John Umstead Hospital is a state psychiatric hospital, located in the peaceful community of Butner, North Carolina. Butner is centrally located approximately ½ hour away from Raleigh, Durham and Research Triangle Park.
Oh, great! Let's reinforce the image of the rich Duke students who can afford to leave 5 grand lying around...... I have a hard time believing this one. I say something happened to the money (she blew it or lost it) and had to tell mom and dad something..... That's not to say that thefts don't happen on campus, they do. There's just something weird about this one.
Kim strikes again.
Family of man who died in jail wants investigation
BY DAN E. WAY : The Herald-Sun, Sep 6, 2006 : 11:01 pm ET
DURHAM -- Relatives of a man who died in the Durham County Jail are demanding an investigation into why he was held 17 days on a suicide watch under psychiatric care and prescribed anti-psychotic medication even though he had no history of mental illness and there was no indication on his arrest report that he was anything other than drunk and disorderly.
"relatives reported him missing to police and went to the jail looking for him, ironically, about the same time he was dying in his cell. "
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-767507.html