A man died Sunday after he was transported from Manhattan Central Booking to a local hospital, an NYPD spokesperson said Monday.<\/p>\n
Vincent Thoms, 51, was being held at 100 Centre St., which houses Manhattan Criminal Court, when police called for emergency medical workers around 6:45 p.m. Sunday, officials said.<\/p>\n
The NYPD said Thoms was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said the department\u2019s Force Investigation Division is looking into the incident, and declined to provide further comment.<\/p>\n
According to court records and a criminal complaint, Thoms was arrested Sunday after allegedly shoplifting. He was due to appear in court for that case on Monday.<\/p>\n
Information for his lawyer was not yet available.<\/p>\n
Last year, police notified the public of nine deaths at NYPD holding facilities. At least four of those deaths were for low-level offenses like drug possession and petit larceny, according to officials and records. After calls from lawmakers and advocates, the city\u2019s Department of Investigation launched<\/a> an inquiry into the deaths.<\/p>\n Police said Thoms lived in East Harlem.<\/p>\n This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died Sunday after he was transported from Manhattan Central Booking to a local hospital, an NYPD…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-172432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}