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The Greene County Medical Examiner has ruled the death of a suspect at the Greene County Jail in March was an accident.
The medical examiner says 53-year-old Darrell Thorne died of asphyxiation by forcible restraint, methamphetamine use, and heart disease.
Thorne was under the influence became combative.
He was placed in a restraint chair.
A jailer noticed that Thorne was unresponsive and the jailer administer Narcan and C-P-R.
He was transported to a hospital where he died five days later.
The Greene County Sheriff’s Department has launched an administrative review.