{"id":416025,"date":"2026-10-01T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416025\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:14:10","slug":"60-year-old-duval-county-inmate-found-unresponsive-in-cell-dies-at-hospital-jso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416025\/","title":{"rendered":"60-year-old Duval County inmate found unresponsive in cell dies at hospital: JSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\"  loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/VRQBDAEBCBEUPDFPC2SBV65SLA.png\"\/>Thomas Trefzer (WJXT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Duval County Jail inmate died after he was found unresponsive in his cell and taken to the hospital, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Thomas Trefzer, 60, was arrested on Sept. 16 on drug trafficking, DUI and other traffic-related charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">On Thursday, he was found unresponsive in his jail cell. The Jacksonville Fire Rescue responded and took Trefzer to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JSO said the incident is being investigated as a natural death pending the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office\u2019s results..<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Trefzer (WJXT) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Duval County Jail inmate died after he was found unresponsive in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1039,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-416025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-duval-county","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416025","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=416025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}