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26. Here's the NY Times in September 2007, three years before the 29 September 2010

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Prosecutor Tries to Kill Himself After Arrest in Pedophile Case
By NICK BUNKLEY
September 21, 2007
DETROIT, Sept. 20 — A federal prosecutor from Florida ... tried to hang himself on Thursday in his jail cell, the police here said. The prosecutor, John David Roy Atchison, 53, had been removed from a suicide watch the previous day after assuring his lawyer and a judge that he would not harm himself. He was not injured in the suicide attempt ...

... Mr. Atchison, 53, was arrested getting off a plane in Detroit on Sept. 16 and charged with the unthinkable. The authorities there said ... he had arranged with an undercover agent to have sex with a 5-year-old girl. Now Mr. Atchison is awaiting trial in a federal prison in Michigan ...
Town Is Shaken After Prosecutor’s Arrest in a Child-Sex Sting
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: September 29, 2007

His next suicide attempt succeeded about a week later. Here's USA Today, reprinting a Detroit Free Press story on 5 October 2007:

... J.D. Roy Atchison, 53, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., hanged himself at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Mich., where he was taken after trying to commit suicide last month at Sanilac (Mich.) County Jail, authorities said ... Officials said Atchison had been housed in solitary confinement, was under close supervision and had shown no signs of despondency ...
Prosecutor jailed on child-sex charges hangs himself
By David Ashenfelter, Detroit Free Press