Forty-eight-year-old Dennis Johnson was found unresponsive in his cell at the Codiac RCMP detachment in the middle of the night on Nov. 20, 2022. He had experienced cardiac arrest and was transported to hospital, where he died a few days later.
Coroner’s inquest hears Johnson was intoxicated when he was detained at Codiac RCMP detachment
Mark Leger · CBC News
· Posted: Jul 20, 2026 7:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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A coroner’s inquest into the death of Dennis Johnson in police custody in Moncton is underway at the Saint John Law Courts. (Mark Leger/CBC News)
A man detained by the Codiac RCMP in Moncton in November 2022 because he was deemed intoxicated, suffered cardiac arrest in his cell and died a few days later in hospital, a coroner’s inquest heard Monday at the Saint John Law Courts.
Dennis Johnson, 48, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Codiac RCMP detachment around 3 a.m. on Nov. 20, 2022.
He had experienced cardiac arrest and was transported to hospital, where he died on Nov. 23.
On the first day of the inquest,
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