Santa Barbara County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> said in a statement.<\/p>\n\u201cMore than five hours after Mireles was released, the California Highway Patrol notified the Sheriff\u2019s Office that Mireles had been reported missing from Shafter,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon receiving that information, Sheriff\u2019s deputies conducted an extensive search of the jail property and surrounding area, including nearby businesses and locations known to be frequented by individuals recently released from custody,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
Mireles was not found during that search, but his body was discovered a week later by a custodian working on the county property within a few hundred feet of the jail. The temperatures in Santa Barbara during the week Mireles was reported missing ranged from 79 to 81 degrees.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo see the location where Mireles was found, a person would need to leave the walkway, enter the brush several feet and look down into the vegetation,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe Mireles\u2019 body had been at the location since approximately the time that he was released from jail. The sheriff\u2019s office continues to investigate and a cause of death has not yet been determined, they said.<\/p>\n
The incident nearly mirrors a case in Azusa five months ago when a man released from an Azusa police facility after an arrest for driving under the influence climbed into a police patrol car outside of the building and was found dead three days later. The cause of death for Eric Valencia, 37, was determined to be extreme heat, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kern County resident who was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Santa Barbara County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2789,7,9,8,3813,176948,339,154181,35367,15787,5936,1555,346,176949,953,2637,3025,430],"class_list":["post-446739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-body","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cause","tag-david-mireles","tag-death","tag-extensive-search","tag-following-day","tag-influence","tag-location","tag-man","tag-office","tag-santa-barbara-county-jail","tag-shafter","tag-sheriff","tag-statement","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446739","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=446739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}