{"id":161206,"date":"2026-02-03T02:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:02:06","slug":"inmate-in-santa-ana-jail-dies-at-local-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161206\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate in Santa Ana Jail Dies at Local Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation was pending Monday into the death of a 77-year-old Orange County Jail inmate.<\/p>\n<p>The inmate, whose name was not immediately released, was taken to a hospital on Saturday to be treated for respiratory issues, officials said. The inmate was pronounced dead at the hospital Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The inmate, who was being housed in the Central Men\u2019s Jail in Santa Ana, was booked on Dec. 17 by Tustin police on suspicion of criminal threats and brandishing a gun, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The inmate\u2019s cause of death was pending and the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s Office will investigate the in-custody death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation was pending Monday into the death of a 77-year-old Orange County Jail inmate. The inmate, whose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,12146,1583,22976,14367,972,21777],"class_list":["post-161206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-dies","tag-hospital","tag-inmate","tag-jail","tag-local","tag-santa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}