A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the Ector County Sheriff’s Department, two nurses and nine doctors in connection with the August 2022 death of an Ector County jail inmate.
Kreasta Arnold’s brother, Disraeli Arnold, filed the lawsuit in Ector County District Court on behalf of his father, Curtis Arnold, and his niece, Faith Arnold.
In it, Disraeli Arnold claims his sister, 46, developed two treatable ailments, Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome and myocarditis, while incarcerated in the jail and died because doctors failed to recognize the symptoms in a timely manner and ECSO staff didn’t take the symptoms seriously.
He also claims nurses either didn’t take the symptoms seriously or didn’t notice them.
According to the lawsuit, Kreasta Arnold became sick on Aug. 11, 2022, lacked energy, hallucinated, became erratic and confused and had balance and movement issues.
Despite all this, Disraeli Arnold claims, “the sheriff’s office, nurses and doctors played the fiddle.”
In addition, Disraeli Arnold alleges his sister was isolated by the defendants so her family didn’t know what was going on.
The Arnolds are seeking more than $1 million in damages for negligence and wrongful death.
Online court records indicate that on July 22, 2022, now retired Ector County District Judge James Rush revoked Arnold’s probation in a credit card abuse case after she committed forgery in Ward County. He sentenced her to five concurrent 10 month state jail terms.
According to her obituary, Kreasta Arnold was survived by her parents, two children, two siblings and three grandchildren.
The Ector County Attorney’s Office has a policy of not commenting on pending litigation.
