“In the last 6 months, there has been little transparency or resolution,” said an attorney for the family of Charles Faggart, who died at UF Health following a clash with Duval County jail guards.
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Federal prosecutors subpoena first responders in controversial Duval jail death
Prosecutors began ordering witnesses to arrive at the federal courthouse downtown to give testimony in June and July.
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Feds to take lead in controversial Duval jail death investigation
The scope of the federal investigation into the death of Charles Faggart is unclear, and State Attorney Melissa Nelson did not say what conclusions her office has drawn about the case.
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Ranking officer during Duval jail death has spotty past
A Jacksonville jail sergeant suspended in the aftermath of the violent death of a chef in April was hired despite having been kicked out of the Marines and having a history of arrests for domestic violence.
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JSO blocks release of emails in days after fatally injured inmate was taken to hospital
In the three days after Charles Faggart, a 31-year-old father and food truck vendor, was rushed to UF Health with fatal injuries from the Duval County jail, Sheriff T.K. Waters sent and received no email – or at least none that the sheriff’s office is willing to disclose – according to heavily redacted records obtained by The Tributary.
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Autopsy into controversial jail death complete, but findings a mystery
That report’s findings about what ultimately caused Faggart’s controversial death will prove consequential, so the report’s completion is a significant step.
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Sergeant suspended after Duval jail death broke use of force policy before
The sergeant who was among nine guards suspended by Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters after a Duval County inmate was allegedly brutalized to death in April was reprimanded in 2021 after he pepper sprayed a restrained inmate at close range.
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Medical records in controversial jail death contradict JSO account
Doctors at UF Health who evaluated a broken, bruised and unresponsive Charles Faggart after he’d arrived from the Duval County jail on April 7 concluded he did not have fentanyl in his system or suffer a seizure, contradicting key details released by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office about the controversial in-custody death. Doctors also removed a barb from a stun gun in his back – JSO has not previously disclosed that Faggart was stunned – and noted multiple fractures on his face and ribs, bruises throughout his body, and serious damage to his kidneys and liver.
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JSO jailers said she had no visible injuries. Photos say otherwise
Allison Fierro’s face was unmarked when she was booked into the Duval County jail on a DUI. When she bonded out three days later, her eyes were a frightful black-and-blue mask, the result of a violent “straight-arm-bar” takedown by two officers who decided the 108-pound, 55-year-old woman pleading for her anxiety meds was being “uncooperative.”
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Officer suspended in recent Duval jail death was previously reprimanded
One of the nine Duval County jail officers suspended earlier this month in connection with the death of 31-year-old Charles Faggart was reprimanded last year in an unrelated internal affairs investigation centered around the death of a different inmate, according to documents obtained by The Tributary.