Death in Calhoun County Jail Thought to be From Natural Causes
An ICE detainee died in the Calhoun County Jail on Friday. A release from the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department said the man died at 11:38 a.m. on February 5
th. The release states that the man is a U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee. The death appears to have resulted from natural causes, and not be related to COVID-19.
58-year-old Jesse Jermone Dean Jr. was a Bahamian national. Dean was arrested by ICE on December 31, 2020, after his release from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons at North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan, following completion of a 30-year federal sentence on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine, possession, conspiracy to import cocaine, importation of cocaine and use of a communications device in the commission of a felony.