Diana Eldredge

Marion County Sheriff’s detention deputies responded to an attempted suicide inside the jail early Wednesday morning.

A short time later, inmate Diana Eldredge, 49, was transported to Munroe Regional Medical Center and listed in critical condition, a sheriff’s report says.

She had been booked at the jail on Feb. 24 on a charge of grand theft.

At Sheriff Billy Woods’ request, investigators with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement are investigating the incident.

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