OC Sheriff posts video of return of jail escapees

Shortly after 1 a.m., deputies escorted Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, into the Central Men’s Jail, as shown in video released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

– Saturday, Jan. 30: Nayeri and Tieu are arrested in San Francisco after a tipster spots the white van parked near a Whole Foods Market.

The other escapee, 43-year-old Bac Duong, was arrested Friday in Santa Ana, his city of residence.

In a letter sent Friday to Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, the head of the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs said union members told jail officials that department policy on inmate counts was not being followed. Hutchens said Nayeri ran when officers approached the van, but he was captured after a short chase.

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Police found ammunition but no gun in the van.

At 11 a.m. Thursday, checkout time, the manager said, he went to tell the men it was time to leave.

– Friday, Jan. 29: Duong walks into an auto fix shop in Santa Ana and says he wants to surrender. Tieu didn’t resist arrest, police said. Duong is apparently acquainted with the store’s owner and his wife, and he spoke to the wife, who called 911, according to reports from the scene. They apprehended him and then transported both escapees to Park Station for further investigation.

Authorities say two of three men who escaped were in San Jose at recently as Thursday afternoon. She vowed to examine “where the system failed” and scheduled a news conference Monday to provide more details.

But it’s unclear how the inmates got the tools officials suspect they’d need to escape. A man flagged down officers after noticing a parked van that looked like one believed stolen by the trio of inmates during the brazen escape, which was carried out on January 22. Nooshafarin Ravaghi, 44, gave Nayeri a paper copy of a Google Earth map that showed an aerial view of the entire jail compound, Hallock said.

Nayeri, the probable mastermind in the escape, allegedly had help from a woman whose English classes he was taking while locked up, authorities said. It wasn’t clear if she had a lawyer. But believe me, we will be looking top-to-bottom on that. Several other arrests – for unrelated warrants or probation issues – also took place during the manhunt. Jail staff don’t realize they’re missing for 16 hours.

Nayeri had been held without bond since September 2014, charged with kidnapping, torture, aggravated mayhem and burglary. Hutchens said in a statement Saturday that she wouldn’t comment until an internal investigation was complete. The pair is reputed to be connected with Vietnamese-American street gangs.

(Orange County Sheriff’s Office via AP). The FBI and U.S. Marshals Service pledged the initial $50,000.

Tieu had been in jail since October 2013 for chargers of gang-related murder and drive-by shooting.

Duong, a native of Vietnam, has been held since last month on charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.

Now that the three violent inmates are back in jail, the focus will turn to how they were able to saw, crawl and climb their way out of a maximum-security facility.