The Pulaski sheriff’s office says David Honey, 34, of Fayetteville was found hanged from a bedsheet attached to a cell door frame about 9:40 p.m. Saturday.

A spokesman for the sheriff said the death was a suicide. Honey was placed in custody Friday on North Little Rock charges of criminal mischief and public intoxication.

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Honey was in a cell for a single inmate. Those cells are checked hourly, a spokesman said.

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