{"id":347037,"date":"2026-07-21T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347037\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:43:24","slug":"man-dies-inside-duval-county-jail-awaiting-transfer-to-clay-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/347037\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies inside Duval County jail awaiting transfer to Clay County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A JSO spokesperson said the 40-year-old man was arrested Friday on a Clay County warrant. He died Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A man died inside the Duval County Jail Sunday evening while awaiting a transfer to Clay County on a warrant, according to a spokesperson with the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man, 40-year-old Christopher James Lumpkin, was arrested Friday, July 17, on a Clay County warrant. A JSO spokesperson said the agency was notified of his death around 8 p.m. Sunday, July 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JSO investigators said no use of force incidents were reported involving Lumpkin, and they are awaiting results from the medical examiner&#8217;s office. A JSO spokesperson said in a statement Lumpkin was being monitored on drug detox protocols.<\/p>\n<p>First Coast News is working to obtain Lumpkin&#8217;s arrest report and the incident report associated with his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A JSO spokesperson said the 40-year-old man was arrested Friday on a Clay County warrant. He died Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-347037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347037","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=347037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}