{"id":225349,"date":"2026-03-18T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225349\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:41:13","slug":"inmate-dies-after-medication-distribution-at-county-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225349\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate dies after medication distribution at county jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 An inmate died after staff found him in medical distress while medication was being dispensed, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Medicine was dispensed to inmates at the County Jail when the staff noticed one of the inmates was having an issue and provided emergency aid.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite life-saving measures, the man was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p> The inmate was identified as 48-year-old Trenidad Castilleja of San Luis Obispo.<\/p>\n<p>Castilleja was arrested by the San Luis Obispo Police Department back in 2024 and had been in custody on three separate cases.<\/p>\n<p> Two cases had been resolved, and he was pending sentencing on the third at the time of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Castilleja had a long history of being booked into jail, with more than 24 such occurrences since 1998.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death is unknown until an autopsy can be performed.<\/p>\n<p> No foul play is suspected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 An inmate died after staff found him in medical distress while medication&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-225349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225349","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=225349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}