{"id":414087,"date":"2026-09-29T21:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414087\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:27:56","slug":"man-being-held-in-hillsborough-jail-dies-in-hospital-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414087\/","title":{"rendered":"Man being held in Hillsborough jail dies in hospital, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A 27-year-old man being held in a Hillsborough County jail died in a hospital early Sunday, six days after he was found unresponsive in his cell, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Deputies found Liam J. Thomas unresponsive in his cell at the Orient Road Jail in Tampa about 6:45 p.m. on Sept. 21, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Thomas had injuries that appeared to be self-inflicted, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thomas was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he remained until he was pronounced dead at 1:27 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thomas\u2019 death remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thomas, of Tampa, was arrested Sept. 4 on charges of armed drug trafficking and armed possession of drugs with the intent to deliver, records show. His bond was set at $162,500, and his arraignment was scheduled for Oct. 28. He had not yet entered a plea in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man being held in a Hillsborough County jail died in a hospital early Sunday, six days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[45291,2554,2555,2556,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-414087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-section-crime","tag-section-hillsborough","tag-section-news","tag-section-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414087","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=414087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}