Loskarn Found in Basement After Suicide, Authorities Say (Updated) (Video) By Niels Lesniewski Posted January 24, 2014 at 12:15pm Facebook Twitter Email Reddit </p> <p><strong>Updated 12:57 p.m. |</strong></p> <p>Loskarn, the former chief of staff for Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., was <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/loskarn_to_be_released_to_familys_maryland_residence_for_home_detention-229687-1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">residing with his parents</a> after being released into their custody <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/federal_complaint_against_loskarn_details_child_porn_allegations-229645-1.html">following an arrest on child pornography charges</a>. The deadline to bring an indictment against Loskarn, <a href="https://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/loskarn-indictment-delayed-plea-bargain-possible/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">originally scheduled for this month, was delayed until Feb. 10.</a> </p> <p>“At approximately 12pm yesterday, Carroll County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a private residence in the 6900 block of Kenmar Lane for a report of an unconscious male, believed to be deceased,” the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Friday. “Family members reported finding 35 year old Jesse Ryan Loskarn unresponsive in his basement where he’d been residing with family since this past December. The preliminary investigation indicates that Loskarn may have taken his own life, and his body has since been transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for Autopsy. </p> <div>Alexander’s office released a statement that said: “For everyone involved, this is a sad and tragic story from beginning to end.”</div> <p><a href="https://www.tennessean.com/article/20140124/NEWS/301240097/Former-Alexander-aide-Ryan-Loskarn-commits-suicide-?odyssey=mod|breaking|text|FRONTPAGE">The Tennessean</a><br /> <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/ryan-loskarn-death-102565.html">Politico</a></p> <p/> <p> <em>Abby Livingston, Meredith Shiner and Hannah Hess contributed to this report.</em> </p> <p></body> Recent Stories Former Rep. Nita Lowey, first woman to lead House Appropriations, dies Trump says he will stop FBI headquarters move to Maryland House Democrats emerge from retreat hopeful about 2026 but aware of challenge Trump signs stopgap spending measure, averting shutdown CMS pick Oz vows to go after Medicare Advantage Simpson remembered as a giant of the Senate, literally
