Deaths in Custody
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Edimar de Araujo

34 years old · died August 7, 2007 · Providence County, Rhode Island

Edimar de Araujo, 34, died on August 7, 2007, in Providence, Rhode Island, while held in immigration detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE's reporting attributes his death to acute intoxication from the combined effects of cocaine and hydroxyzine.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. ICE attributed the death to acute intoxication from the combined effects of cocaine and hydroxyzine.

Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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