{"id":93040,"date":"2025-12-13T07:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/93040\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:23:06","slug":"75-year-old-inmate-who-died-of-natural-causes-in-la-central-jail-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/93040\/","title":{"rendered":"75-Year-Old Inmate Who Died of Natural Causes In LA Central Jail Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 75-year-old inmate who died at the Men\u2019s Central Jail died of natural causes, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Pena\u2019s death was the result of pulmonary thromboembolism, a condition in which blood clots travel from elsewhere in the body and block an artery in the lungs, according to the medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Pena\u2019s death was reported just after 5 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s department investigates all in-custody deaths, which are also examined by department oversight bodies such as the Inspector General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 75-year-old inmate who died at the Men\u2019s Central Jail died of natural causes, the Los Angeles County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36625,51208,6278,51209,5249,22976,14367,48,52,51,47,50,49,51210],"class_list":["post-93040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-75-year-old","tag-causes","tag-central","tag-died","tag-identified","tag-inmate","tag-jail","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-natural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93040","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=93040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}