{"id":161460,"date":"2026-02-19T17:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161460\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:46:10","slug":"man-dies-in-ice-custody-at-miami-county-detention-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161460\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in ICE custody at Miami County detention facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MIAMI COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) &#8211; A 59-year-old man in ICE custody died at a detention facility in Miami County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/lorth-sim-cambodia-dies-ice-custody-miami-correctional-facility-indiana\/531-4e329b8a-271d-47f4-bd3c-6ba63b012a96\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/lorth-sim-cambodia-dies-ice-custody-miami-correctional-facility-indiana\/531-4e329b8a-271d-47f4-bd3c-6ba63b012a96\">our sister station WTHR<\/a>, the man was found unresponsive in his cell Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials identified the man as Lorth Sim from Cambodia. He reportedly entered the United States as a refugee and became a permanent resident in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to officials, Sim had a criminal record and was arrested in December and placed in ICE custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His cause of death is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WNDU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) &#8211; A 59-year-old man in ICE custody died at a detention facility in Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3979,6424,1877,2391,123,77290,4270,125,124,77291,45889],"class_list":{"0":"post-161460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-custody","9":"tag-dies","10":"tag-ice","11":"tag-man","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-correctional-facility","14":"tag-miami-county","15":"tag-miami-headlines","16":"tag-miami-news","17":"tag-speedway-slammer","18":"tag-wndu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}