The province’s Special Investigations Unit has invoked it’s mandate after the death of a man following an incident earlier this month in Armour Township.

OPP say officers with the Almaguin Highlands Detachment stopped a vehicle on March 4th with the driver and passenger arrested.

Police say while in custody the passenger, a 54-year-old man from Armour Township, went into medical distress and was brought to hospital.

OPP say he died in hospital on Friday.

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