An Arkansas inmate was pronounced dead after he was found unresponsive in his jail cell early Friday morning, authorities said.
Lonoke County jail personnel were on rounds shortly after 2:30 a.m. when deputies saw James Lee Flowers, 53, of Cabot lying unresponsive on the floor of his cell, Capt. David Bufford said in a news release.
An ambulance was called and medics tried to revive Flowers, but those attempts were unsuccessful, Bufford said.
His body was sent to the state Crime Laboratory in Little Rock for autopsy, but the death "does appear to be of natural causes," Bufford wrote Friday morning.
Flowers arrived at the jail Wednesday after he was arrested on a warrant for a probation violation, the release said.
The investigation is ongoing.
Metro on 12/17/2016