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U.S. NEWSSaturday 30 January 2016
Authorities: 1 of 3 fugitive inmates arrested in California
GILLIAN FLACCUS outside to smoke a ciga- Orange County Sheriff agents search the back of a hotel for escaped inmates in Santa Ana, Calif.,
AMY TAXIN rette and wait for police to on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. Authorities say they have captured one of three inmates who escaped
Associated Press arrive. from a California jail last week while facing charges involving violent crimes.
SANTA ANA, California He says his sister’s boyfriend
(AP) — Police arrested one knows Duong and that (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
of three violent fugitive in- marshals had come by to
mates on Friday after he speak with her earlier this ing out of the van. than Tieu and 37-year-old cion of being an accessory
told a woman in the same week because she might Duong, 20-year-old Jona- Hossein Nayeri had all been to a felony and was being
city where the jailbreak oc- have visited Duong in jail. awaiting trial for separate held pending a court ap-
curred a week ago that he Shortly after the late- violent crimes. They were pearance set for Monday.
wanted to surrender, au- morning arrest, a team of held in a dormitory with It wasn’t clear if she had a
thorities said. well-armed officers in pro- about 65 other men in the lawyer.
The other two men re- tective vests swarmed the jail about 30 miles (48.28 ki- Ravaghi and Nayeri also
mained at large. business. lometers) southeast of Los exchanged “personal and
Bac Duong, 43, was taken Hutchens declined to pro- Angeles. close” handwritten letters,
into custody in Santa Ana, vide any further details at a The men escaped in the but Hallock could not say if
where the trio made their hastily called news confer- early morning hours after the two were romantically
brazen escape on Jan. 22 ence that lasted less than cutting a hole in a met- involved.
from the maximum secu- three minutes. al grate then crawling “It wasn’t the relationship
rity facility, Orange County “We just got this information through plumbing tunnels that you would expect be-
Sheriff Sandra Hutchens and as you can imagine and onto the roof of a five- tween a teacher and an
said. we are pretty busy working story jail building. inmate in a custody set-
Lee Tran, an owner of Auto this,” she said, adding that They pushed aside barbed ting,” he said.
Electric Rebuilders, said Du- authorities were still search- wire and rappelled down It wasn’t clear why Nayeri
ong came into the shop ing for a white van they be- using a rope made of bed was allowed to take Rav-
looking for Tran’s sister, The- lieve Duong had stolen last sheets. aghi’s class because he
resa, and told her that he week. It took jail staff 16 hours to spoke fluent English.
wanted to turn himself in. Authorities previously said realize the three men were “Why he was attending
Tran says his sister called the fugitives were likely still missing. that class ... that is very
police and Duong went together and might be liv- On Thursday, authorities much of a concern for us,”
arrested a woman who Hallock said.
taught English inside the jail It also wasn’t clear why
and told investigators she jail deputies, who read all
helped Nayeri plan the es- inmate correspondence,
cape. didn’t flag the letters.
Nooshafarin Ravaghi, 44, Ravaghi was working as a
gave Nayeri a paper copy part-time English instructor
of a Google Earth map that through the Rancho San-
showed an aerial view of tiago Community College
the entire jail compound, District and had worked in
Lt. Jeff Hallock, a sheriff’s the inmate program since
spokesman, said. 2014, the district said in a
She was booked on suspi- statement.q
