The Canadian who died while in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had several health concerns in the weeks leading up to his death, according to a report published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The report comes exactly a month after Johnny Noviello, 49, was found unresponsive at a federal detention centre in Miami.<\/p>\n
The day after Noviello\u00a0was taken into ICE custody, he was\u00a0diagnosed with a seizure disorder and hypertension. He was prescribed anticonvulsant and blood pressure medications, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Noviello had been in the U.S. since 1988 and became a lawful permanent resident in 1991.<\/p>\n
The Canadian citizen was convicted of a number of offences in 2023 \u2014 including racketeering and drug trafficking \u2014 and had been sentenced to 12 months in prison, according to an ICE release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was arrested by ICE at a Florida probation office on May 15. Noviello’s lawyer maintains he had not violated the terms of his probation.<\/p>\n
Noviello was being detained “pending removal proceedings,” the agency said in a news release.<\/p>\n
On June 8, a medical provider requested a mental health referral for Noviello after he reported “feeling sad and depressed” and refused to go to a medical clinic for an evaluation.<\/p>\n
The next day, according to the ICE report, he said to staff that he had not eaten in “a while.”<\/p>\n
“A provider evaluated Mr. Noviello by request of a [behavioural health provider] BHP, and documented Mr. Noviello maintained poor personal hygiene,” the report says, noting that a provider discussed with him the “importance of self-hygiene and proper diet.”<\/p>\n
In the afternoon on June 23, prison staff found Noviello unresponsive without a pulse and with low body temperature and blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n
The Miami Fire Rescue Department took over his care and attempted to revive him for half an hour, before pronouncing him dead.<\/p>\n
The cause of Noviello’s death is unknown and is under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian who died while in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had several health concerns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-20197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}