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Police arrest inmate in central Kansas jail death

Published August 27, 2021 9:23 AM

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested an inmate in a central Kansas jail suspected of causing the death of another inmate last month. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says it arrested 27-year-old Jose Guadalupe Villegas, of Great Bend, on suspicion of second-degree murder in the July death of 46-year-old Scott Deines, also of Great Bend. Villegas was already in the Barton County jail serving a sentence on an unrelated firearms conviction when he was arrested. Investigators say Villegas injured Deines during a fight at the jail on July 22, and jail staff found Deines unresponsive in his cell three days later. An autopsy showed Deines died of blunt force trauma to his head.

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