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Investigation underway into death of Santa Barbara County jail inmate

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Man died several hours after being found unresponsive in main county jail.

Authorities are now identifying a Santa Barbara County Jail inmate who died in custody.

Luis Enrique Duron Rodriguez was at the Main Santa Barbara County Jail in Santa Barbara.

Deputies noticed the Goleta man was unresponsive early Sunday morning.

They started efforts to revive him, and paramedics continued the effort. But, the
37-year-old man died a few hours later at a hospital. An autopsy is pending.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.