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Police investigate inmate's death
Posted: 04.19.2010 at 4:06 PM
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CAMERON, MO. -- Law enforcement officials have begun a criminal investigation into the death of an inmate at the western Missouri correctional center.

The Missouri Department of corrections said 27-year-old Pascual Herrera was found dead at the prison on Friday.

After an autopsy was performed, authorities began a criminal investigation.

No future details were immediately available.

Herrera was serving a six-year sentence for tampering with an airplane/motorboat in Camden County and weapons and drug charges from Cass County.

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