2 remaining fugitive inmates captured in San Francisco after jail break

“He was scared for his life, pretty much”, Tran said.

Dalusung says it was all very quick and he only saw them handcuff one man and put him in a patrol auto.

A man matching Duong’s description stole the vehicle after responding to a Craigslist advertisement posted by the owner, who was looking to sell the van, police said. All three are described as extremely risky; authorities have even compared Nayeri to Hannibal Lecter. Duong was captured Friday in Santa Ana.

She had worked in the inmate program since 2014 and had undergone a sheriff’s background check, the district said in a statement, adding that it was working closely with investigators to provide them all they needed.

One of three violent inmates who broke out of a Southern California jail a week ago surrendered Friday, and authorities believe the other two may be 400 miles north in the San Jose area.

But for the time being, the search is focused on San Jose.

Investigators believe the remaining two escaped inmates may be together in the San Jose area in a white van, Sheriff’s Department Lt. Jeff Hallock said at an early evening news conference.

inmatesIn California, authorities say the trio cut through a quarter-inch-thick grill on a dormitory wall and got into plumbing tunnels before sawing through half-inch-thick steel bars.

The two remaining fugitives from a California jailbreak last week are in custody, law enforcement officials said Saturday.

Search warrants were executed late Thursday at a warehouse and a private residence in Westminster. Multiple people were detained and released, but no arrests were made.

The investigation was focused on a Vietnamese gang, but Hallock declined to elaborate.

Duong, Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, had all been awaiting trial for unrelated violent crimes. Also Thursday, authorities arrested 44-year-old Nooshafarin Ravaghi of Lake Forest who taught English at the jail. They also pushed aside the barbed wire and rappelled to the ground using a makeshift rope out of bed sheets.

The three had been on the loose for about a week after breaking out of the Men’s Central Jail, a maximum-security facility located in Santa Ana, on the morning of January 22.

Ravaghi was booked on suspicion of being an accessory to a felony, Hallock said. It wasn’t clear if she had a lawyer. Hallock says the two exchanged letters of a personal nature, but he could not say if they were romantically involved.

“[It’s] not the kind of relationship you’d expect from a teacher and inmate in custody”, Hallock said, adding that there isn’t any information that would determine the relationship was romantic.

Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said Wednesday she suspects Nayeri was the “mastermind” of the breakout based on his military training in the U.S. Armed Forces.

He said Ravaghi provided “critical planning tools”, including Google Earth images of the jail, to the inmates.

Duong had been held on an attempted murder charge at the Santa Ana jail since December 2015, for allegedly shooting someone during an argument. Nayeri, the supposed brain behind the great escape, was in jail on charges stemming from the 2012 mutilation and torture of a kidnap victim.

For many years, Vietnam did not honor US government requests to repatriate deportees.