Investigation launched after 29-year-old Tasmanian dies in custody

Man found unresponsive shortly after being arrested over a simple offence' in the Moonah area

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Tasmanian authorities have launched an investigation into a man's death in police custody in Hobart on Saturday.

Police arrested the 29-year-old man from Glenorchy at about 1:55am, after several reports he was acting in a suspicious and erratic" manner in the Moonah area.

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