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Jesse Stout

37 years old · died February 11, 2024 · Pinellas County Jail, Pinellas County, Florida

Jesse Stout, 37, was held at the Pinellas County Jail in Clearwater. Deputies found him in his cell and took him to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead early on Sunday, February 11, 2024. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said he died of an apparent fentanyl overdose, and detectives said the drug was passed to him and other people held at the jail by another person held there.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says Stout died of an apparent fentanyl overdose after fentanyl was passed to him by another inmate who had swallowed baggies of the drug during arrest.

Reported by: Pinellas County Sheriff's Office (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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