Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Angel Polanco-Molina

53 years old · died March 30, 2006 · Federal Medical Center Springfield, Joplin, Missouri

Angel Polanco-Molina, 53, died on March 30, 2006, while held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at Springfield Federal Medical Center in Missouri. ICE attributed his death to a pulmonary embolus and cardiac arrest. Those are the medical causes ICE gave for his death.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE listed the cause as pulmonary embolus and cardiac arrest.

Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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