{"id":474170,"date":"2026-09-24T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474170\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:36:08","slug":"inmate-found-dead-at-vista-jail-newsradio-600-kogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/474170\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate Found Dead At Vista Jail | Newsradio 600 KOGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after a 45-year-old man was found dead in his cell at the Vista Jail Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego County sheriff\u2019s deputies found the man during a routine security check. Investigators say he appeared to have died by suicide. He was alone in the cell at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office says he had been in custody since February 2024, following his arrest by the San Diego Fugitive Task Force on warrants related to child molestation charges.<\/p>\n<p>He was scheduled to appear in court next week.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: KGTV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a 45-year-old man was found dead in his cell at the Vista Jail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2790,66938,23,100,74,76,75,186505],"class_list":["post-474170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-dead","tag-kogo-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-vista-jail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474170","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=474170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}