(L.A.) Adrienne Villa, 47, Died While in Custody

Case Number: 2025-09947

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 47-year-old female.

The coroner’s office identified the woman as Adrienne Villa and listed her race/ethnicity as White/Caucasian. During a misdemeanor booking by LAPD on June 12, her ethnicity was recorded as being Hispanic.

Brown hair / Brown eyes

Height: 5 feet 6 inches / Weight: 170 pounds

Manner of Death: Suicide

Cause of Death: Hanging

RIP ADRIENNE TENNILLE VILLA (September 22, 1977 – June 18, 2025)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Wednesday.

The decedent appears to have been born Adrienne T Arviso in L.A. County. Her mother’s maiden name is Riddle. She was LASD’s 23rd in-custody death for this year. Hers is the first publicly known case of an anti-ICE protester dying while in detention.

She died “while detained at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, shortly after she attended a hearing on June 17 during which she pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, 10 of which carried enhancements under California’s Three Strikes Law for prior felony convictions. During that hearing, she was remanded to custody and had bail set at $1.33 million. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Daniel Vizcarra told LA Public Press that she was found hanging in a cell lockup, later that day. The coroner pronounced her dead just before 4 a.m. the next morning, on June 18, 2025.”

Source: lapublicpress.org/2025/08/ice-raids-la-arrests-charges/

Villa was arrested by CHP on June 13 on a felony charge for attempted murder and was booked at LAPD’s 77th Street station on June 14.

It was murder no matter which way you cut it, by the way. Driving someone to suicide by overwhelming them with excessive charges blown out of proportion for political motivations IS murder, as well. The Aaron Schwartz method. pic.twitter.com/c8iMNBu3e1
— V Gundam (@TheVGundam) August 20, 2025