ALLEN, Texas — One of the detention officers who was fired after the in-custody death of Marvin Scott III has been reinstated, according to the Collin County Sheriff’s Office. 

Six of the seven detention officers who were fired appealed their terminations through the civil-service process. On Friday, April 23, the employment of one of these officers was restored in the internal appeal portion of the civil-service process.

The sheriff’s office said Skinner terminated seven detention officers April 1 after an internal affairs investigation found that the officers violated sheriff’s office policies and procedures. An eighth detention officer resigned while under investigation.

Skinner said he disagrees with this decision and is considering his options before the full Civil Service Commission. 

Scott, 26, was arrested March 14 at an outlet mall in Allen on a charge of possessing less than two ounces of marijuana, according to authorities. Allen officers took Scott to a hospital because he was reportedly acting erratically. Scott was released and police took him to the county jail.

While at the jail, Scott began to exhibit “some strange behavior,” Skinner said at a March 19 news conference. Detention officers placed Scott on a restraint bed, used pepper spray and covered his face with a spit mask. Scott became unresponsive at some point and later was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.