{"id":28243,"date":"2022-12-24T19:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T00:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=28243"},"modified":"2022-12-24T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T00:24:00","slug":"investigation-underway-after-polk-county-inmate-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/12\/24\/investigation-underway-after-polk-county-inmate-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after Polk County inmate dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said an inmate died at the hospital Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"446\" height=\"372\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2-7.png 446w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2-7-300x250.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Nelson, 46, is accused of attacking deputies at the South County Jail before he was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nelson had been taken into custody Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lakeland Police Department responded to the report of a man fleeing from a Taco Bell located on U.S. Highway 98 after a possible burglary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nelson was found in the parking lot of a Starbucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his backpack, police said they found a bag containing a substance determined to be methamphetamine and syringes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was arrested on charges of possessing drug paraphernalia and methamphetamine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said an inmate died at the hospital Friday. Eric Nelson, 46, is accused of attacking deputies at the South County Jail before he was taken&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[4120],"class_list":["post-28243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-investigation-underway-after-polk-county-inmate-dies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28245,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28243\/revisions\/28245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}