{"id":65314,"date":"2025-11-22T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65314\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T14:14:16","slug":"man-who-died-in-san-diego-county-sheriffs-custody-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65314\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died in San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s custody identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

(FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 The San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office has released the identity of a man who died in custody at the San Diego Central Jail over the weekend.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, SDSO identified the man as 44-year-old Brandon Pleffner. Pleffner had been in SDSO custody since Nov. 8 and was facing charges for shoplifting with priors, according to the department.<\/p>\n

He was discovered unresponsive inside his cell on Sunday, Nov. 16, around 7 p.m. while deputies at the jail were performing routine duties.<\/p>\n

Inmate found dead at San Diego Central Jail <\/a><\/p>\n

Upon seeing him unresponsive, deputies immediately activated 9-1-1 and requested assistance from the jail\u2019s medical staff in addition to performing life-saving measures.<\/p>\n

Paramedics and the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department continued life-saving measures when they arrived. Despite efforts to save his life, Pleffner was pronounced dead at around 7:35 a.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe San Diego Sheriff\u2019s Office extends our sympathies to the Pleffner family and all those affected by his passing,\u201d SDSO stated.<\/p>\n

The department added that a Sheriff\u2019s Family Liaison Officer will continue to support Pleffner\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego & KUSI News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 The San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office has released the identity of a man who died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[39106,74,76,75,2637],"class_list":["post-65314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-brandon-pleffner","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sheriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65314","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=65314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}