Source: nbcmiami.com 11/18/25
[ACSOL comment: Another tragic and unnecessary loss]
Former Miami-Dade Police Sgt. James ____ died by apparent suicide in the Federal Detention Center-Miami Monday just days before he faced a minimum 15-year sentence for producing and possessing child sexual abuse videos, his attorney has confirmed to NBC6.
The attorney, Michael Catalano, said the Bureau of Prisons informed him on Monday that James was found alone in the top bunk in his cell, dead of an apparent suicide by strangulation.
It is the second apparent suicide of an inmate held at the downtown Miami facility reported in three days.
Catalano said James communicated with him electronically around 9 a.m. Monday — not revealing anything that would suggest suicide — and was found dead about three hours later.
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