{"id":276051,"date":"2026-04-19T22:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276051\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:29:24","slug":"inmate-24-dies-in-custody-at-federal-facility-in-downtown-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276051\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate, 24, dies in custody at federal facility in Downtown San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (CNS) \u2014 A 24-year-old inmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego died this weekend, according to officials at the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at MCC found Roberto Daniel Garcia Jacobo unresponsive shortly after 9:30 a.m. Saturday and immediately began life-saving measures, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emergency medical services were requested while life-saving efforts continued. Mr. Garcia Jacobo was subsequently pronounced deceased by EMS personnel,&#8221; MCC spokeswoman Brittney Potes said.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI was notified of the death, Potes said.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia Jacobo was sentenced in the Southern District of California to a 24-month sentence for importation of methamphetamine. He had been in custody at MCC since Sept. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (CNS) \u2014 A 24-year-old inmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown San Diego died this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1055,40930,119169,119395,74,76,75,119396,576],"class_list":["post-276051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-fbi","tag-mcc","tag-metropolitan-correctional-center","tag-roberto-daniel-garcia-jacobo","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-southern-district-of-california","tag-u-s-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276051","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=276051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}