Another Alcatraz?
"Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said of the accused felons who escaped Friday by cutting through half-inch steel bars and rappelling three floors down from the roof by a makeshift rope made from sheets. Hutchens said local and federal investigators in several counties have received several tips but have had no concrete sightings of the men. There was no indication any of them have left the country, she said. A separate inquiry was launched into how the inmates got the tools to cut through the steel bars and plumbing tunnels to make it to the roof."
"Escaped California inmates may have had help" by Gillian Flaccus Associated Press January 26, 2016
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Three California inmates who sawed through a metal grate, crawled through plumbing tunnels, and shimmied to freedom down a bed-linen rope probably had help and may have benefited from the complacency of jail staff, security experts said.
The inmates vanished early Friday in a jail break eerily similar to the escape of two inmates from an upstate New York prison last summer. Those men also cut through a wall under a bunk bed and used piping and tunnels inside the facility to reach the outside.
See: Sweating Out the End of Jade Helm
Looks like it never ended, and now they are recycling scripts!
A major question for investigators will be how the men were able to plan and execute their flight with such precision, said Kevin Tamez, a managing partner for MPM Group, a Philadelphia firm that consults on prison security, management, and infrastructure.
It’s likely someone slipped them blueprints or told them how the bowels of the jail were laid out, he said.
This sure stinks like something that came out a bowel.
‘‘If I were whoever’s investigating, there are some people who would be on a polygraph, I guarantee you,’’ Tamez said. ‘‘They had to have had some inside help.’’
Oh, an inside job, huh?
Lieutenant Jeff Hallock, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, said there is no evidence so far that the trio had help from the inside but authorities know it’s a possibility.
Yes, authority would always tell us if a false flag was an inside job, uh-huh.
It was the first escape in nearly three decades from the facility, built in 1968. The similarities to last summer’s escape in New York point to complacency among guards and administrators at the California facility, experts said.
One wonders if they were let go to justify this -- if this even real.
‘‘This summer, we had this huge escape from Clinton Prison in New York and every prison or jail administrator in the country should have said to themselves, ‘Huh, I wonder if I am vulnerable?’ and should have checked their steam shafts and tunnels and every other thing that gives access to the outside,’’ said Martin Horn, a professor of corrections at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York.
Motion sensor cameras — available for $55 and often used as baby monitors — can be installed along interior tunnels and pipes to catch inmates, Tamez said.
Thorough searches of dorms probably would have discovered the tools used or damage to the vent grill, he said.
Hallock said the jail’s policy is to do walk-throughs every hour to check on inmates. More involved searches are done randomly, he said, but declined to be more specific.
It’s unclear why the inmates, who were charged with violent felonies, were housed in a dorm with more than 60 other inmates. Assignment to a large, busy room probably made it easier for them to avoid detection, Horn said.
Then it should be back to the hole, I don't care what Obama says.
Authorities believe Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Bac Duong, 43, are in Southern California. They held a news conference in Vietnamese to ask for help....
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"Escaped inmate was ordered deported to Vietnam in 1998" byAmy Taxin and Gillian Flaccus Associated Press January 26, 2016
SANTA ANA, Calif. — One of three inmates who escaped from an Orange County jail was ordered deported to Vietnam in 1998 but remained in the country and racked up a lengthy rap sheet, immigration officials said Tuesday.
Uh-oh.
I'll bet this story soon disappears.
It clashes with the current agenda of we must welcome the migrants.
Bac Duong, 43, checked in with federal immigration officials as required until August 2014, the statement said. U.S. officials can’t detain immigrants indefinitely while they await deportation and must release most after six months.
Even if they are killers and rapists. Globe won an award for a series on that.
Of course, they can indefinitely detain and torture innocent people accused of being terrorists.
Sheriff’s officials are focusing the search on neighborhoods where the men could be hiding, especially among Orange County’s sizable Vietnamese-American population, which is among the largest in the U.S. Two of the men have ties to local Vietnamese gangs, sheriff’s Lt. Dave Sawyer said.
It's at times like these that Californians must be rethinking the sanctuary state status.
I know Vietnam is a bad place and all, but.... didn't someone wage chemical warfare on them over a damnable lie once, long ago?
Hossein Nayeri, 37, was arrested in 2014 on charges including kidnapping and torture.
Was he working for the CIA?
Authorities said he abducted a marijuana dealer, burned him with a blow torch and cut off his penis because Nayeri thought the man had buried money in the desert.
That guy needs to smoke some weed and chill out.
The men were gone for as long as 16 hours before officials noticed they were missing from the common dorm they share with more than 60 other inmates at Orange County Central Jail. An attack on a guard delayed a Friday night head count by hours.
Get up Morris.
The sheriff’s department has been slow to add more rooftop security cameras at the jail despite a grand jury’s recommendations for eight years straight, according to a report in the Orange County Register. The department has said since 2008 that budget constraints prevented upgrades to the camera systems at the five county jails.
Is that what this is? A push for even more surveillance?
The escape was eerily similar to one last year in New York, where two inmates cut through a portion of a wall hidden under a bunk bed and used piping and tunnels inside the facility to get out. But the search for the pair focused on nearby woods instead of a dense urban population.
Yeah, how "eerie."
It's the next logical step, isn't it?
The slow and incremental implementation of martial law -- for public safety, of course.
A major question for California investigators will be how the men could plan and execute their escape with such precision, said Kevin Tamez, a managing partner for MPM Group, a Philadelphia-based firm that consults on prison security, management and infrastructure.
It’s likely someone slipped them blueprints or told them how the bowels of the jail were laid out, he said.
There is no evidence so far that the trio had help from the inside, but authorities know it’s a possibility, Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Hallock said.
It was the first escape in nearly three decades from the California facility built in 1968. It holds 900 men and is in Santa Ana, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
Hallock said the jail’s general policy is to do walk-throughs every hour to check on inmates. More thorough searches are done randomly, he said, declining to give more details.
It’s unclear why the inmates charged with violent felonies were housed in the common dorm with dozens of others. Assigning them to a large, busy room likely made it easier for them to avoid detection, said Martin Horn, a professor of corrections at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York.
Federal authorities are offering $50,000 for information leading to their capture.
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They did come up with one clue; the bus they used to escape was found on the side of a highway.
Time for me to take a break, readers.
NDUs:
"Newly released police body camera footage shows a 51-year-old man screaming ‘‘They’re killing me!’’ and ‘‘I can’t breathe’’ while Oakland, Calif., police officers held him down. The man later died and last week, the city of Oakland settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family for $450,000."
Ca$e clo$ed then.
