{"id":190993,"date":"2026-02-24T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190993\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:36:08","slug":"24-year-old-inmate-found-dead-in-orange-county-jail-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/190993\/","title":{"rendered":"24-year-old inmate found dead in Orange County jail \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old man suspected of vehicle theft died in custody at the Theo Lacy Facility, the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Department announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Edson Israel Rosasmedrano had been housed at the detention center since Sunday after being booked on Thursday by the Santa Ana Police Department on suspicion of vehicle theft, receiving a stolen vehicle, and obstructing or resisting a police officer, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Rosasmedrano was found unresponsive on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies and medical staff responded and attempted life-saving measures, but he was pronounced dead by Orange County Fire Authority personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Following a preliminary investigation, detectives said no suspicious circumstances were identified.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death will be determined after an autopsy and toxicology examination are completed.<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County District Attorney&#8217;s Office is expected to investigate the in-custody death along with the sheriff&#8217;s department, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old man suspected of vehicle theft died in custody at the Theo Lacy Facility, the Orange County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,611],"class_list":{"0":"post-190993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-orange-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190993","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=190993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}