A man died after suffering a medical episode while in custody at an NYPD station house Friday, police sources said.
Police officers responded to a call about a “violent male” with a weapon at a home on East 119th Street between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue in Harlem around 11:30 a.m. and took the 64-year-old into custody, the sources said.
“We arrive, investigate and arrest for criminal mischief and menacing,” a police source said.
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