    The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services says an inmate from Scotts Bluff County died Saturday at the State Penitentiary in Lincoln.
The cause of death for 26-year old Philip Garcia has not been determined, but agency policy calls for an autopsy while state law requires a grand jury investigation anytime a person dies in custody or in the process of being arrested.
Garcia was 4-½-years into a 26-to-36 year sentence for assault on a peace officer, felony use of a deadly weapon, and theft by taking.
The bulk of the sentence was for stabbing a Scottsbluff police officer who was trying to arrest Garcia on an assault complaint. During a struggle, the officer suffered wounds to the face that required 18 stitches.
The theft conviction was from an unrelated case, but its one-year prison term was to be served after the others.