DUBLIN \u2014 A 37-year-old Oakland woman died Friday at Santa Rita Jail, a day after she was found unresponsive in a holding cell but later cleared to return to the facility, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Just after 3:40 a.m. Friday, guards found the woman \u2014 identified as Kenyonna Farr \u2014 unresponsive in her assigned cell during a general observation check, according to the Alameda County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Farr was pronounced dead roughly 35 minutes later.<\/p>\n
A day earlier, deputies found Farr unresponsive in a holding cell, where she was awaiting transportation to court, authorities said. She was taken to an area hospital and later cleared by medical personnel to return to the jail.<\/p>\n
The cause and manner of Farr\u2019s death will be determined by a forensic pathologist after an autopsy and toxicology testing, according to the sheriff\u2019s office. Her next of kin has been notified.<\/p>\n
The circumstances surrounding the incident remain under investigation, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Farr was arrested on suspicion of violating a court order and booked into the jail on March 10, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the Alameda County District Attorney\u2019s Office has been notified about the death, which will also be reported to the California Attorney General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBLIN \u2014 A 37-year-old Oakland woman died Friday at Santa Rita Jail, a day after she was found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,723,7626,15713,100,143,145,144,69657],"class_list":["post-220878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-crime","tag-dublin","tag-in-custody-death","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-santa-rita-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220878","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=220878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}