Federal immigration officials will review operations at a privately owned detention center in Eloy after two immigrants committed suicide in a span of three days earlier this week.
Federal authorities say another Guatemalan resident being held at the Eloy Detention Center has died from an apparent suicide.
ICE’s press release is here: http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1305/130502phoenix.htm
I have very little to go on with the press release below from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement concerning the “apparent suicide” at the Eloy Detention Center by a 24 year-old Guatemalan woman named Elsa Guadalupe-Gonzales.
Oldrich Tomanek, 51
From ICE’s press release:
ICE detainee passes away at Haskell Memorial Hospital in Texas
DALLAS — A national of the former Czechoslovakia, who had been in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since April 2, passed away Thursday at Haskell Memorial Hospital (HMH) due to heart failure, based on a preliminary determination.
Oldrich Tomanek, 51, was transferred to ICE custody from the Richardson Police Department April 2. On April 25, Tomanek was transported to HMH after cardiac/respiratory arrest. He passed away the same day at 5:26 p.m. (CDT).
Tomanek had no known next of kin in the United States.
Consistent with ICE protocol, the appropriate state health and local law enforcement agencies have been informed, along with the Embassy of the Czech Republic.
Tomanek is the fourth detainee to pass away in ICE custody in fiscal year 2013.
A British Virgin Islands man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) passed away early Saturday at the Puerto Rico Medical Center in Rio Piedras.
Glaston Smith, 51, of Tortola, was allegedly stabbed by other inmates while in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Guaynabo, a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility.
Muere bajo custodia de inmigración
Telemundo covered Pablo Ortiz-Matamoros’ death in February: http://www.telemundodenver.com/inmigracion/videos/Muere-hondureno-Pablo-Ortiz-Matamoros-bajo-custodia-de-inmigracion-191943041.html
I got this in my inbox yesterday: ICE detainee passes away at Conroe Regional Medical Center in Houston HOUSTON — A Honduran national, who has been in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs En…
A Honduran national, who has been in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since Nov. 5, 2012, passed away Friday at Conroe Regional Medical Center (CRMC) due to lymphoma and related complications.
A Guatemalan man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) passed away early Sunday at St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment for diabetes complications.
Juan Pablo Flores-Segura was rushed to Saint Bernardine Hospital May 29 after collapsing at ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) processing facility in San Bernardino. Physicians at the hospital determined the 31-year-old had suffered a brain hemorrhage. Doctors declared Flores brain dead May 31, but he was kept on life support until his parents could be paroled into the United States from Mexico to see him and meet with physicians.
