Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has cleared officers with the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS) of any wrongdoing in connection with a man's injuries in a police cell earlier this year.

The incident stems from the arrest of a 33-year-old man who was charged with assault the evening of Jan. 13 and placed in a police cell at the NAPS Mishkeegogamang detachment. 

Mishkeegogamang First Nation is about 500 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay. 

"After the man made suicidal utterances, off…