{"id":474966,"date":"2025-12-27T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/474966\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:36:18","slug":"woman-dies-in-custody-at-police-watch-house-in-tennant-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/474966\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies in custody at police watch house in Tennant Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 44-year-old woman has died in custody at a police watch house in Tennant Creek on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Around 1pm local time, Tennant Creek police were conducting cell checks at the watch house and located an unconscious female prisoner in a cell, according to the NT Police, Fire &amp; Emergency Services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police immediately conducted CPR, with St John Ambulance taking over first aid upon arrival, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A statement said the woman was taken to Tennant Creek Hospital by St John Ambulance, where she was declared deceased a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The cause of death is yet to be determined,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;A crime scene was established in the watch house and the incident is being treated as a death in custody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Northern Territory Police Force is currently investigating the death.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 44-year-old woman has died in custody at a police watch house in Tennant Creek on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":474967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,60323,50,13264,13263,37728,204842,200776,215227],"class_list":{"0":"post-474966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-death-in-custody","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-northern-territory","12":"tag-nt","13":"tag-nt-police","14":"tag-police-watch-house","15":"tag-st-john-ambulance","16":"tag-tennant-creek"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}