NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A man charged with being disorderly after being picked up on Flagler Avenue overnight was transported to Halifax Medical Center for a psychiatric evaluation after trying to hang himself in a holding cell, police said.
Officer Brandon Mechtel responded to a 7:15 p.m. Friday call of a disorderly person destroying someone else's property in the 400 block of Flagler Avenue. Mechtel wrote in his initial report the man was "found to be intoxicated and unintentionally damaging the property of another."
Mechtel said that while the man was in custody and he was writing up the police report, the man "attempted to commit suicide." The man was taken to Bert Fish Medical Center to make sure he was not injured and then transported to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach under a Baker Act order for psychiatric evaluation.
New Smyrna Beach police spokesman Sgt. Michael Brouillette said the man tried to hang himself with his T-shirt. Editor's