The Mesa County Coroner’s Office said today that a 55-year-old homeless man died from an accidental drowning in a ditch in Grand Junction.
Daniel J. Devereaux Jr., a resident of Grand Junction, was found Saturday afternoon in the drainage off Horizon Drive.
“Mr. Devereaux was also acutely intoxicated,” the coroner’s office stated.
Court records show Devereaux was arrested and charged with sexual contact without consent on Dec. 28 and failed to appear at his arraignment in Mesa County last week. Devereaux had a pending warrant for his arrest.
A trespassing charge in Grand Junction was dropped in January, court records show.
He was sentenced to a year in jail in 2008 after a drunken-driving charge that included charges of leaving the scene of an accident, open container and no proof of insurance. He was rearrested in 2010 after the court determined he had not paid either his $2,300 in fines his fines or $1,175 in restitution from the accident.
The only address for Devereaux in public records is the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department’s Alternative Sentencing Unit in Grand Junction.
