CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — An Oklahoma man was found hanged in his Montgomery County (Tenn.) jail cell on Sunday, officials said.
Sheriff’s spokesman Ted Denny says deputies discovered the body of Jay Frederick Smith of Broken Arrow during a routine security sweep of the jail at 2:09 p.m. Sunday. Jail officials say he hanged himself using a bed sheet.
According to an arrest warrant, Smith, a truck driver, was arrested Saturday about 4:30 a.m. on Interstate 24 while traveling west from Nashville.
The warrant says another truck driver reported that Smith’s truck almost ran four cars off the road. A sheriff’s deputy said in a report that he smelled an intoxicant coming from the 53-year-old Smith, who allegedly failed three field sobriety tests.
Smith’s body was taken to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy.
by the associated press
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