[image:1 align:left]In North Aurora, Illinois, man arrested by Chicago Police on drug charges last Wednesday night died after apparently swallowing the drugs while in custody. Kevin Davis, 47, becomes the 40^th person to die in US domestic drug law operations so far this year.

Citing police sources, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Davis was arrested by police at 7:38pm. When he subsequently collapsed, he was taken to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:28pm.

Harrison Area detectives were investigating. Which drugs Davis ingested is not known.

Davis's death come little more than a month after the city of Chicago paid $1.3 million to the family of another man who died in police custody after being arrested and swallowing drugs. The city settled after a police videotape showed officers neglected to aid the man as he struggled for life in the back of a paddy wagon.