{"id":73247,"date":"2016-07-15T17:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T23:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/67-year-old-jail-inmate-died-of-heart-attack\/"},"modified":"2016-07-15T23:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T23:08:55","slug":"67-year-old-jail-inmate-died-of-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/67-year-old-jail-inmate-died-of-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"67-year-old jail inmate died of heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f1adc8ca-08f4-44eb-bbfd-5ba943615c95&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1150\" height=\"1725\" alt=\"JERRY McBRIDE\/Durango Herald file&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A 67-year-old La Plata County Jail inmate found dead in his cell Sunday apparently suffered a fatal heart attack, county Coroner Jann Smith said Wednesday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">JERRY McBRIDE\/Durango Herald file&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A 67-year-old La Plata County Jail inmate found dead in his cell Sunday apparently suffered a fatal heart attack, county Coroner Jann Smith said Wednesday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 67-year-old La Plata County Jail inmate found dead in his cell Sunday apparently suffered a fatal heart attack, county Coroner Jann Smith said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Durango Police and La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office have not been able to reach family, and they will not release the man\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen this man checked into jail, he wrote that he had no family on the paperwork,\u201d Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesman Dan Bender said. \u201cWe\u2019ve tried several avenues and haven\u2019t come up with anything yet. That doesn\u2019t mean he doesn\u2019t have some family out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When deputies went to collect the man\u2019s breakfast tray around 7:30 a.m. Sunday, the inmate was found unresponsive on the floor of his single cell.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies, then medical personnel, performed life-saving before he was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>Details of his sentence were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jpace@durangoherald.com\">jpace@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities withhold identity while they search for kin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[255,13,1024,52,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-death-and-dying","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-la-plata-county-jail","tag-law-enforcement","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73247"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}