{"id":364518,"date":"2026-10-05T02:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364518\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T02:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:16:12","slug":"arrestee-dies-after-medical-episode-in-custody-at-nypd-precinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364518\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrestee dies after medical episode in custody at NYPD precinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man arrested by the NYPD on drug charges died a day after experiencing a medical episode while being detained at a Brooklyn precinct, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Reginald Newkirk, 54, was being held at the 67th Precinct in Flatbush while awaiting transfer to criminal court for his arraignment when his health rapidly declined, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders rushed Newkirk, of Brooklyn, to a local hospital just before 2:15 p.m. on Saturday with an unspecified illness, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.47550432;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41136780\" width=\"871\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/postinhouse-nypostinhouse-christopher-sadowski-136871178.jpg\" alt=\"An NYPD arm patch on an officer's uniform.\" class=\"wp-image-41136780\"\/>Reginald Newkirk, 54, died on Sunday after being held in Brooklyn\u2019s 67th Precinct. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>He remained in the hospital and was pronounced dead on Sunday, police said. His cause of death is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>Newkirk was arrested on Friday for criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>His death follows that of a 46-year-old detainee on Sept. 9, who suffered a medical episode inside the Central Courts Building in Downtown Brooklyn and died, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/brooklyn-central-booking-prisoner-death-09102026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AMNY reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.67868852;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41136792\" width=\"990\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/67th-precinct-prisoner-54-dies-143792238.jpg\" alt=\"The New York City Police Department's 67th Precinct.\" class=\"wp-image-41136792\"\/>Newkirk was arrested on Friday for criminal possession of a controlled substance and had been awaiting arraignment when his health declined, Google maps<\/p>\n<p>In April, Hector Sierra, 51, and Zamiqua Miller, 33, both died after suffering withdrawal symptoms in NYPD custody, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s Force Investigation Division will investigate Newkirk\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man arrested by the NYPD on drug charges died a day after experiencing a medical episode while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,98,1015,19998,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,58],"class_list":["post-364518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arrests","tag-brooklyn","tag-deaths","tag-inmates","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364518","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=364518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}