A woman with a history of legal troubles in Sierra County died on Oct. 30 while in custody at the Plumas County Correctional Facility in Quincy.

Leana Conrady, 32, was found unresponsive in her cell. The Plumas County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that she had used a bed sheet to hang herself. Correctional officers and medical personnel initiated life-saving efforts but she was pronounced dead at the scene, the statement said.

Conrady was arrested Oct. 29 in the Dunsmuir area of Siskiyou County on an outstanding warrant from Sierra County. A month earlier on Sept. 29 she had been arrested along with three others in a raid of a home in Goodyears Bar. (“CHP Copter and Yuba SWAT Team Assist Sierra County Sheriff—Four Arrested at Goodyears Bar Residence”—The Mountain Messenger, Oct. 6, 2022.)

Conrady was subsequently ordered to attend drug rehab but left the facility after five days, leading to a warrant for her arrest. Sierra County Probation officers transported her from Siskiyou County to the Plumas Correctional Facility, pending Sierra County court proceedings. Sierra County contracts with the Quincy facility to house inmates.

Sierra County Sheriff Mike Fisher told The Mountain Messenger that investigations into Conrady’s death will include a coroner’s review of the circumstances of her death and a secondary, independent review by Lassen County District Attorney‘s Office investigators. He called her death a “tragic situation” and will comment more when reports are finalized.

Fisher noted that Conrady’s legal problems in Sierra County began in 2017 with child endangerment charges, with later additional charges that included fighting with a sheriff’s deputy and assault with a deadly weapon.