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| Two inmates die at West Valley |
| By The Daily Bulletin |
| Published: 04/18/2006 |
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Two inmates at California's West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga have died one from an apparent suicide and another from reported medical problems, sheriff's officials said. Autopsies will be performed on both men today at the Riverside County Coroner's Office, said sheriff's Sgt. Frank Bell. Their deaths bring the total of in-custody deaths this year to five. "It was kind of an anomaly," sheriff's Sgt. Frank Bell said. About 12:30 a.m. Sunday, 46-year-old Jimmy Perez was taken from the jail to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton with medical problems. "He alerted the (jail) staff he wasn't feeling good. He thought something was wrong, and they decided to transport him to the hospital," Bell said. Perez died at the hospital at 3:50 p.m. Sunday, authorities said. His cause of death was not known Monday. Perez, of San Bernardino, had been in custody since March, awaiting trial on a drug offense. About 1:30 p.m. Sunday, jail staff found Jorge Velazco, 30, of Highland, dead in his cell. He hung himself with a bed sheet, Bell said. Velazco was in custody since March 2003, when he was charged with the stabbing death of his mother, Amparo Farias, during an argument, Bell said. Velazco was housed in a two-man cell within the jail's general population, but he was the sole inmate in the cell, Bell said. In 2005, there were 11 in-custody deaths at the county's three main jails the West Valley Detention Center, the Glen Helen Rehabilitation Center in Devore, and the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino. The numbers also reflect deaths that occurred in the Sheriff's Department's three other booking facilities in Joshua Tree, Victor Valley and Needles, said sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Beavers. The in-custody death investigations primarily include suicides and medical related deaths, and do not usually include homicides committed by inmates on other inmates, Beavers said. |
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