VISTA–The San Diego County Medical Examiner completed an autopsy on an inmate found dead October 7 in his cell at the Vista Detention Facility.
They determined the cause of death to be acute fentanyl, alcohol, and citalopram intoxication and the manner of death to be an accident.
Deputies at the Vista Detention Facility responded to an inmate who was in medical distress. They found the inmate, 31-year-old Adam Terrance Rogers, unresponsive in his cell. Deputies and medical staff performed lifesaving measures until relieved by fire department paramedics. Rogers was pronounced dead at the facility.
Rogers was booked into custody by Oceanside Police Department on July 26 for charges of assault with the intent to commit rape, domestic violence with injury, burglary, violence protective order, assault to commit rape, and false imprisonment with violence.
The Sheriff’s Department Homicide Unit investigated the death and found no evidence of foul play.
