Overview

• Police say the man was discovered unresponsive Friday night in a holding cell at 120 Schermerhorn St., and EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.
• Authorities have not released the man’s name as they work to notify his family.
• The NYPD’s Force Investigations Division has opened a custodial-death inquiry, and the Office of the Medical Examiner will conduct the autopsy.
• Unnamed sources reported he had been arrested the night before on petit larceny related to alleged seafood theft at a Williamsburg Whole Foods and that a crack pipe was found, details not confirmed by official statements.
• This marks at least the second reported in-custody death at the Brooklyn Criminal Court facility this year, drawing renewed attention to detainee monitoring practices.