Former Miami-Dade Police Sgt. James Hurley Edwards died by apparent suicide in the Federal Detention Center-Miami Monday just days before he faced a minimum 15-year sentence for producing and possessing child sexual abuse videos, his attorney has confirmed to NBC6.

The attorney, Michael Catalano, said the Bureau of Prisons informed him on Monday that Edwards was found alone in the top bunk in his cell, dead of an apparent suicide by strangulation.

It is the second apparent suicide of an inmate held at the downtown Miami facility reported in three days.

Catalano said Edwards communicated with him electronically around 9 a.m. Monday -- not revealing anything that would suggest suicide -- and was found dead about three hours later.

Edwards, 58, was first arrested on state charges involvi

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