Deaths in Custody
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Miguel Angel Sarabia-Ortega

36 years old · died January 17, 2012 · Las Vegas Hold Room, Clark County, Nevada

Miguel Angel Sarabia-Ortega, 36, died on January 17, 2012, while held in immigration custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Las Vegas Hold Room in Las Vegas, Nevada. ICE listed methamphetamine intoxication as the cause of his death in its public report. That cause is the agency's own account of how he died.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attributes the death to methamphetamine intoxication.

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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