{"id":58341,"date":"2025-11-18T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58341\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:55:10","slug":"inmate-found-dead-at-san-diego-central-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58341\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate found dead at San Diego Central Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 An inmate at the San Diego Central Jail was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/11\/16\/man-found-dead-in-san-diego-central-jail\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found dead<\/a> on Sunday morning, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at about 7 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 16. Deputies immediately began life saving measures.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/3811\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>, Lt. Juan Marquez of the San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office stated that: \u201cParamedics and the San Diego Fire Department assumed lifesaving measures upon their arrival. Despite their efforts, the individual was pronounced deceased at the detention facility at about 7:35 a.m.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man was in custody since Nov. 8 of this year and was being held on shoplifting charges. His identity has not yet been made public, pending the notification of his next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe San Diego Sheriff\u2019s Office extends our sympathies to the decedent\u2019s family and all those affected by his passing,\u201d added Marquez.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegocounty.gov\/content\/sdc\/clerb.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen\u2019s Law Enforcement Review Board<\/a> has been notified. Per protocol, the death will be investigated by Sheriff\u2019s homicide investigators, and the cause of death will be established by the Medical Examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/resources\/transparency-reports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tenth<\/a> in-custody death to occur in 2025 so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 An inmate at the San Diego Central Jail was found dead on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23,100,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-58341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-local-news","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58341","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=58341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}