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U.S. NEWS Friday 28 July 2017
Inmates’ escape video shows everything is caught on tape

walls. At one point Nayeri Nayeri says. “Friday night in ed this calm fatherly pres-
stops and gives a thumbs- San Francisco, a special Fri- ence.”
up. Jonathan Tieu squints day night in San Francisco.” Photos show Ma with Tieu
as the light of the cellphone A marijuana pipe is flashed. on a beach, appearing to
is shined on his face. They hold up a bottle of pose for the camera.
The inmates eventually Jack Daniels. Nayeri’s attorney, Salva-
reach the roof of the Or- The men led authorities on tore Ciulla, did not respond
ange County Jail. a weeklong manhunt be- to questions Wednesday
The video does not show fore they were recaptured. about why he was releas-
how the inmates got to The video does not show ing the video, when the
the ground. Previous re- their recapture. Instead, voiceover was recorded
ports said they rappelled Nayeri narrates the final and who edited the re-
down using bed linens. On two minutes of the edited cordings. Lt. Lane Lagaret,
the video, Nayeri says they video. “We scared a lot of an Orange County Sheriff’s
had industrial rope, a tool- people and caused a lot Department spokesman,
box, a duffel bag and new of anxiety and fear and at has said the department
clothes. The next clips show the end of the day I can’t wouldn’t comment on a
the men taking turns pos- say I feel good about that. video that “seeks to make
ing at the corner of Haight- I can’t.” In another sec- light of criminal actions.”
Ashbury in San Francisco. tion, Nayeri refers to Long The Orange County dis-
There are scenes from in- Ma, the taxi driver they are trict attorney’s office said
side a van where they were charged with kidnapping, it would be inappropriate
sleeping. “This is our casa and who drove them north. to comment on the vid-
for the moment. This is our “This man is truly a hero,” eo because the case is in
crib. Water, all the basics,” Nayeri says. “He just radiat- litigation.q

In this Jan. 22, 2016, image taken from a video released by attor-
ney Salvatore P. Ciulla on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, on behalf
of defendant Adam Hossein Nayeri, an escapee of the Orange
County Jail, Nayeri gives a thumbs-up after crawling through a
previously cut metal screen on a wall to reach plumbing shafts
within the jail walls at the prison in Santa Ana, Calif.
(Salvatore P. Ciulla via AP)

By MICHAEL BALSAMO driver the trio kidnapped
Associated Press and railing against the le-
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — gal system.
In an age when everything One clip shows the inside
else is captured for public of the maximum-securi-
consumption on a smart- ty dorm room, known as
phone, why not your own Module F, at the jail in San-
jailbreak? ta Ana. How the inmates
Inmates who broke out got the cellphones and
of the maximum-security were able to record in jail is
wing of a Southern Califor- not clear. “You know, a lot
nia jail last year did just that of people like to credit us
with a smuggled cellphone with some Houdini escape
and through an attorney act all in eight minutes flat.
released it to the public It’s an interesting myth,”
Wednesday, complete Nayeri says in voiceover
with glossy voiceover from to the video. “In reality we
one of the convicts. did leave that mod after
It shows the kind of images count. Not the one they’re
usually relegated to mov- claiming though. I left that
ies like “The Shawshank Re- module at least eight hours
demption,” with the three earlier the night before.”
inmates shimmying into a Inmates in the cramped
vent and crawling through dorm seem to know Nayeri
plumbing shafts. is recording, but do not re-
It was provided to The As- act, except for fellow es-
sociated Press by an at- capee Bac Duong, who
torney for escapee Adam flashes a grin.
Hossein Nayeri. The video then shows the
The crisply edited video has escape.
a pop-music soundtrack Nayeri carefully lifts a
and includes TV news clips sawed-off bunk bed leg,
about the escape and sub- exposing a previously cut
sequent manhunt. It also metal screen on a wall. The
contains voice-overs by screen is set aside as he dis-
Nayeri, recorded after their appears into a vent.
capture, giving his version The trio crawls through
of events, praising the cab plumbing shafts within the