SALEM – A Peabody man is said to have hanged himself with his own pants in a holding cell in Salem District Court Tuesday afternoon.Harley Sawyer, 40, was pronounced dead at 2:36 p.m. at Salem Hospital, according to Steve O’Connell, spokesman for Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett. Sawyer had appeared in court earlier in the day and pleaded guilty to a charge out of Danvers for larceny over $250.O’Connell said Sawyer was placed on probation for one year, ordered to make restitution in the amount of $1,283 and was taken back to his cell after the hearing.Details on what happened next have not been released, pending an ongoing investigation by Salem police, the Trial Court and State Police detectives. Foul play is not suspected. Sawyer had been arraigned on the Danvers case on Sept. 30 and later defaulted on Nov. 15 before he was taken into custody.In addition, O’Connell said Sawyer also had a warrant out of Texas for a charge of aggravated assault and battery and was subject to a violation of probation.”Texas authorities had said they were going to come for him,” O’Connell said.Tuesday’s apparent suicide marks the second incident that happened at the courthouse this month. On Dec. 6, a Lynn convicted Level 3 sex offender – Karl Lamont Hackney – bolted out of a rear door at the court while bound in shackles, which sparked an intense search that ended with his capture a few blocks away on Hawthorne Boulevard.Hackney, 45, later attempted to plead guilty to the escape charge at a late-afternoon arraignment, but District Court Judge Robert Brennan declined to accept the plea and instead ordered the suspect with a long criminal record held without bail. Hackney has since been indicted for the escape.