{"id":194787,"date":"2026-02-26T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194787\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:27:10","slug":"inmate-24-dies-in-police-custody-ocsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194787\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate, 24, Dies In Police Custody: OCSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A 24-year-old suspect charged with vehicle theft died in custody at the Theo Lacy Facility, the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Edson Israel Rosasmendrano 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 office, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Rosasmendrano was found unresponsive on Sunday, authorities said. <\/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":"ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A 24-year-old suspect charged with vehicle theft died in custody at the Theo Lacy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-194787","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194787","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=194787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}