LEE COUNTY, Fla- Delays by the Lee County Sheriff's Office retrieving surveillance video from inside the jail may have led to some video in an inmate death investigation being recorded over. Nicholas Christie, died in March after being pepper sprayed and restrained by deputies in the Lee County jail's downtown holding facility. The State Attorney's Office cleared the sheriff's office of wrong-doing after reviewing documents and video relating to Christie's death, but no video was handed over showing Christie being pepper sprayed. On March 27th at 2:28 p.m., Christie is seen pacing around the intake area of the jail and being escorted into a transfer cell. Then at 2:36 pm, he's seen in the transfer area calmy cooperating with deputies, and at 2:37 p.m. he's seen being walked through another area of the jail. There is not video of Christie again for almost 48 hours. During that period, documents from the sheriff's office show that Christie is pepper sprayed eight times. The timeline describes each time deputies use OC spray on Christie, but none of it is caught on camera. The sheriff's office says the spraying happened in a secure area, where surveillance cameras are present but do not record. The next time there is recorded video of Christie is two days later, March 29 at 2:03 p.m. It shows Christie sitting in a restraint chair waiting for an ambulance. The video then freezes for about ten minutes. The video then shows Christie being escorted out of the jail by paramedics. According to the documented timeline, this does not happen until 2:26 p.m., 23 minutes after the video freezes. All of the events in between are not caught on camera. The sheriff's office issued a statement in reference to the missing video: "The video system from which the copy would have derived is a digital system. The immense size and amount of video data which is captured from multiple locations throughout the jail facility and its storage is immense. As a result, the potential exists for captured video to freeze or lock up, as appears in this case. The video content is not altered or tampered, but is a download of the video for the camera location as it existed in the data file when copied." The State Attorney's Office also noticed the video freeze while reviewing the investigation. They were told that the video was actually recorded over since it was not retrieved for several weeks. The State Attorneys Office is recommending that in the future investigators move quickly to recover video before it gets recorded over. Read coverage on this story by the News Press