Paragraphs 11 through 14 read:  “He says when Moreno was
being arrested an officer allowed him to go back into
his house to get a bottle of antidepressant pills.”

“The
chief says the bottle, which Moreno wasn’t allowed to handle, was filled on
Feb. 4 with 30 pills.”

“On that Sunday,
Feb 14, investigators say there was only one pill
left.”

“That’s why a toxicology report is being
done.”

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/100216-deer-park-jail-death

Family Seeks Answers After Son Dies at Deer Park Jail

Updated: Tuesday, 16 Feb 2010, 9:52 AM CST
Published : Tuesday, 16 Feb
2010, 5:52 PM CST

HOUSTON – Roy Moreno is in pain. His 26-year-old son
went to jail Sunday for two traffic warrants, but Nicholas Moreno never walked
out of holding cell D223 in Deer Park.

On Sunday, Moreno was driving home
in Shore Acres. He’d been out with friends.

His father says a block away
from their house he hit this mailbox while trying to avoid neighborhood dogs.
Police were called but left because of shift change.

When the shore acres
officers arrived at Moreno’s house they realized the 26-year-old had traffic
warrants out of Deer Park.

He was eventually taken to the Deer Park
Police Department.

“He was booked in without incident and went to sleep
in the jail cell. They knew he was sleep because he was snoring loudly,” Chief
Gregory Grigg says.

According to the chief it was 12:50 a.m. when a
jailer realized Moreno’s snoring had stopped.

“They opened door and went
in and tried to shake him awake,” Chief Grigg says.

After CPR and a
defibrillator Moreno was gone. Now his father wants to know what happened to his
otherwise healthy son.

Chief Grigg has another concern.

He says
when Moreno was being arrested an officer allowed him to go back into his house
to get a bottle of antidepressant pills.

The chief says the bottle, which
Moreno wasn’t allowed to handle, was filled on Feb. 4 with 30 pills.

On
that Sunday, investigators say there was only one pill left.

That’s why a
toxicology report is being done.

In the meantime, Roy Moreno simply wants
to know what happened to the son he nurtured and raised for 26 years.

“He
loved his family, he loved his friends, I never thought this would happen to
us,” Moreno says.

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