On 8 September 2013, Miguel Ángel Durrels was on break from his job at a polo horse farm near Pilar, a suburb of Buenos Aires, when he was arrested for possessing 78 grams of marijuana. About 12 hours later, the 29-year-old was found dead in a police station’s holding cell area, that a judge had expressly ruled could not be used to detain anyone. Miguel's body was found hanging from an electrical cable and leaning almost upright against the cell’s iron bars.
The police told his family he had committed suicide.
