MENDOCINO Co., 1/29/20 — An inmate of the Mendocino County Jail, which is operated by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO), overdosed on drugs this morning and was briefly hospitalized. The drugs were likely some kind of opioid and the innate, whose name has not been released, was found unresponsive yesterday, was administered three doses of Narcan, an a drug which blocks the effects of opioids, and eventually sent by ambulance to the hospital. He was later returned to the jail.

We have not been able to contact the MCSO for further details today, but will update later.

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Adrian Fernandez Baumann is the managing editor of The Mendocino Voice and a founder. He lives in the Willits area and has a dog named Bravo.