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[h=4]Two remaining fugitive Calif. inmates caught in San Francisco[/h]A San Francisco police officer was approached Saturday morning by a woman who pointed out a van that fit the description of one stolen by the inmates.
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A tip from an observant woman led San Francisco police to catch two escaped inmates from Southern California who had been on the run for more than a week, police said Saturday. A third escapee surrendered Friday. (Jan. 30) AP
Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens is all smiles as she answers questions about the capture of jail escapees Hossein Nayeri and Jonathan Tieu during a news conference outside Orange County Sheriff's Department headquarters in Santa Ana on Jan. 30, 2016.(Photo: Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register via AP)
The last<span style="color: Red;">*</span>two fugitives<span style="color: Red;">*</span>from a trio of inmates<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who escaped from a California<span style="color: Red;">*</span>jail last week were arrested Saturday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in San Francisco after a citizen flagged down a police officer and pointed out their<span style="color: Red;">*</span>white getaway van in a Whole<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Foods parking lot,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>authorities said.
Jonathan Tieu, 20, of Fountain Valley, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, of Newport Beach, were taken into custody a day after fellow<span style="color: Red;">*</span>escapee, Bac Duong, 43, surrendered to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a civilian on a Santa Ana street.
Orange County sheriff<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sandra Hutchens told reporters that a San Francisco<span style="color: Red;">*</span>police officer, who was on an unrelated medical call, was approached Saturday morning by a man<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who pointed out the van, which had been widely described by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>local media.
Hutchens said the man, who is likely to get a share of a $200,000 reward for the inmates' capture,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>told the officer it<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"looks like the van I've been seeing on the news."
As officers approached the van,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Nayeri fled on foot but was captured after a short chase.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The officers then returned to the van and found Tieu hiding inside, Hutchens<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said. Officers found ammunition, but no weapons,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>inside the vehicle.
Duong, who turned himself in Friday,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>had stolen the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>van on Jan. 23, a day after the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>jailbreak, while<span style="color: Red;">*</span>taking it for a test drive. Until his<span style="color: Red;">*</span>capture, it was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the only<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reported sighting of the men since their escape.
This image provided by the Orange County, Calif., Sheriff's Department on Jan. 23, 2016, shows three jail inmates charged with violent crimes who escaped from the Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif. The men from left are, 37-year-old Hossein Nayeri, charged with kidnapping and torture; 20-year-old Jonathan Tieu, who is charged with murder, and 43-year-old Bac Duong, charged with attempted murder.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP)
The three inmates had been held in a dormitory with about 65 other men in Santa Ana, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>They escaped early Jan. 22 by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>cutting a hole in a metal grate before<span style="color: Red;">*</span>crawling through plumbing tunnels and onto the roof of a five-story jail building, the Associated Press reported. They then<span style="color: Red;">*</span>pushed aside barbed wire and rappelled down using a rope made of bed sheets.
Authorities say Duong has been held without bond since last month on charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and other charges in a gang shooting. Immigration authorities and records indicate he had been ordered deported to Vietnam in 1998 but remained in the country and racked up a lengthy rap sheet.
Tieu had been held since October 2013 on charges of murder, attempted murder and shooting<span style="color: Red;">*</span>at an inhabited dwelling. His case is believed to be gang-related.
Nayeri had been held without bond since September 2014, charged with kidnapping, torture, aggravated mayhem and burglary.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Nayeri and two other men are accused of kidnapping a California marijuana dispensary owner in 2012, driving him to a spot in the desert where they believed he had hidden money and torturing him.
Nayeri, the probable mastermind in the escape, allegedly<span style="color: Red;">*</span>had help from a woman whose English classes he was taking while locked up, authorities said.
Teenage police volunteers fan out along the strip of Vietnamese restaurants and shops known as "Little Saigon" to tell storekeepers about the escaped inmates in Westminster, Calif., on Jan. 28. 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Damian Dovarganes, AP)
Nooshafarin Ravaghi, 44, had been teaching<span style="color: Red;">*</span>an English as a second language<span style="color: Red;">*</span>inside the Orange County jail.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Investigators believe a close relationship developed between the pair, who had exchanged handwritten letters of a “personal nature,” according to sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Jeff Hallock.
“It wasn’t the relationship that you would expect between a teacher and an inmate in a custody setting,” he said, noting that jail employees go through training about rules and the risk of being manipulated by inmates.
Ravaghi will be arraigned Monday on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>charges of being an accessory to a felony and is ineligible for bail, KABC-TV reported.
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