Erie County Sheriff John Garcia reported Monday that a 46-year-old male died over the weekend while incarcerated within the Erie County Holding Center.<\/p>\n
According to investigators the individual, identified as Manuel Ortiz, was found unresponsive in his podular cell early Saturday morning. A medical emergency was called, and security and correctional medical staff responded. All efforts to resuscitate Ortiz, including CPR and use of an AED, were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
Paramedics arriving on the scene were also unable to revive Ortiz, and he was pronounced dead at 12:51 a.m. August 15.<\/p>\n
An autopsy was conducted later Saturday morning but the results were not yet returned.<\/p>\n
Ortiz, who had been incarcerated since December 2025, was held for numerous charges, including attempted burglary and criminal mischief in a West Seneca case, and burglary, harassment, and criminal mischief charges in Buffalo.<\/p>\n
The State Attorney General\u2019s Office was notified and is investigating. responded for the investigation. The New York State Commission of Correction was also notified.<\/p>\n
Investigators, in the meantime, are not commenting further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie County Sheriff John Garcia reported Monday that a 46-year-old male died over the weekend while incarcerated within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-267061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}