Monday, January 25, 2016
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES
Authorities hunting three dangerous escapees from a maximum-security jail in Southern California called on the public’s help to find them Sunday, offering $50,000 in rewards and saying they still don’t have all the details of the elaborate escape plan.
“We’re exhausting every lead that we currently have,” Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Hallock said.
The three men, Jonathan Tieu, 20; Hossein Nayeri, 37; and Bac Duong, 43; cut and climbed their way out of the Orange County Men’s Central Jail in Santa Ana sometime after the 5 a.m. Friday head count, authorities said. They weren’t discovered missing for 16 hours.
The U.S. Marshals Service offered a $30,000 reward on top of $20,000 offered by the FBI for information leading to the trio’s capture.
Tieu had been held on a $1 million bond since October 2013 on charges of murder, attempted murder and shooting at an inhabited dwelling.
Nayeri had been held without bond since September 2014 on charges of kidnapping, torture, aggravated mayhem and burglary.
Duong was being held without bond since last month on charges of attempted murder and other charges.