{"id":129251,"date":"2026-01-19T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129251\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:25:08","slug":"detainee-arrested-in-minneapolis-found-dead-in-el-paso-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129251\/","title":{"rendered":"Detainee arrested in Minneapolis found dead in El Paso facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EL PASO, Texas (Valley News Live) &#8211; A 36-year-old Nicaraguan man died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Jan. 14 at a detention facility in El Paso, Texas, according to ICE officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Victor Manuel Diaz was found unconscious and unresponsive in his room at Camp East Montana. Contract security staff immediately notified medical personnel on site, who began life-saving measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">El Paso emergency medical services arrived at 3:45 p.m. MST and continued treatment. Diaz was pronounced dead at 4:09 p.m. MST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ICE officials say the death is a presumed suicide, but the official cause remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Diaz entered ICE custody Jan. 6 after officers encountered him in Minneapolis and determined he was in the U.S. without legal authorization. He was arrested for an immigration violation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to ICE records, Diaz entered the U.S. on March 26, 2024, when Border Patrol agents encountered him at the U.S.-Mexico border. After processing, he received a notice to appear before an immigration judge and was released on parole pending his court date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An immigration judge ordered Diaz removed in absentia Aug. 26, 2025. ICE processed him for removal Jan. 12 and detained him pending deportation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Federal law requires ICE to publicize reports of in-custody deaths within 90 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KVLY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (Valley News Live) &#8211; A 36-year-old Nicaraguan man died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,1829,55502],"class_list":{"0":"post-129251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-immigrations-and-customs-enforcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}