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Bexar County Jail inmate hospitalized after ingesting meth, sheriff’s office says

Inmate was caught chewing on substance, deputies say

Bexar County Jail inmate hospitalized after ingesting drugs, sheriff’s office says

SAN ANTONIO – Bexar County Sheriff’s Office officials on Wednesday confirmed an inmate was hospitalized after ingesting drugs.

Officials have not yet identified the inmate, who was taken to the hospital in critical condition on Monday.

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The 34-year-old man was being booked into the jail when a deputy searching him found him chewing on a substance that was later determined to be methamphetamine.

Officials kept the inmate under medical observation when he “lost consciousness and became unresponsive.”

“Facility medical staff immediately began performing life-saving measures until EMS personnel arrived and transported him to the Downtown Baptist Medical Center for further treatment,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

The inmate was wanted on a warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm.


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Emmy-award winning reporter Dillon Collier joined KSAT Investigates in September 2016. Dillon's investigative stories air weeknights on the Nightbeat and on the Six O'Clock News. Dillon is a two-time Houston Press Club Journalist of the Year and a Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Reporter of the Year.