LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A man died Tuesday and six other people were taken to a hospital from the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, where paramedics were sent on a report of possible overdoses.
Emergency personnel were sent to the facility in the 400 block of Bauchet Street at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday, according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
A man in his 30s died at the scene, and the other patients were transported for hospital treatment in unknown condition, according to Stewart, who said the investigation involves an “unknown white powder.”
The name of the man who died was not immediately released.
Further information was not immediately available from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which is responsible for the facility.
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