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    Vietnamese gangsters may be hiding California jail escapees

    Vietnamese gangsters may be hiding California jail escapees

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    Three prisoners went missing from the Orange County Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana in southern California, sparking an intense manhunt (AFP Photo/John Moore)


    Los Angeles (AFP) - Three prisoners who busted out of a high-security California jail using bed sheets to rappel from a roof are dangerous, likely armed and possibly being hidden by local Vietnamese gang members, law enforcement officials said Monday.

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    The trio, one of whom is a Vietnamese gang member charged with murder, went missing from the Orange County Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana in southern California on Friday, sparking an intense manhunt.

    "There's obviously ties, based on the fact that one of the individuals is a documented Vietnamese gang member," Orange County Sheriff's Lieutenant Jeff Hallock told a news conference.


    "We think it's a strong possibility that he may have connected with those fellow gang members in the Vietnamese community," he added, referring to Jonathan Tieu, 20, who is behind bars on a murder charge.


    Tieu, Hossein Nayeri, 37, and 43-year-old Bac Duong escaped shortly after an inmate head count, but authorities didn't realize they had gone missing until later Friday evening.


    The three prisoners had apparently accessed the jail's plumbing system, used tools to cut through metal bars and made a makeshift rope using bed sheets to rappel from the facility's roof, officials said.


    Authorities are not sure how the men procured the tools needed to cut bars without making any noise. It is also unclear if other inmates had assisted them.


    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has offered a reward of $20,000 and the sheriff's department has also offered $30,000 -- $10,000 for each fugitive.


    Duong is charged with attempted murder and Nayeri with kidnapping and torture.


    Dave Sawyer, also of Orange County Sheriff's Office, told the Los Angeles Times that Nayeri had been charged in a 2012 plot to attack a medical marijuana dispensary owner.


    Nayeri had allegedly driven the victim into the desert and set him on fire, then poured bleach on him and chopped off his penis before leaving him for dead.


    Nayeri fled to his native Iran before his eventual arrest in Prague in 2014, the Times reported.


    The Central Men's Jail in downtown Santa Ana comprises three buildings containing 900 inmates. There have been two previous jail breaks, the last one in 1989.

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    Manhunt for 3 ‘Very Dangerous’ Prisoners Who Escaped OC Jail


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    The three prisoners who escaped from the Central Men’s Jail in Santa Ana.A manhunt was underway in Southern California Monday for three “very dangerous” detainees who escaped from the Central Men’s Jail in Santa Ana 16 hours before they were discovered missing.
    The men cut through a steel grate, half-inch steel bars and plumbing tunnels early Friday before making their way to an unsecured part of the jail’s roof and using makeshift ropes to rappel several floors to the ground, officials said.
    The public should “presume they are armed,” Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said at a Sunday morning news conference.
    “They had some tools. Where they got those tools and how they got them, we do not know that,” Hutchens said.
    Sheriff’s department spokesman Jeff Hallock said that the men, who were awaiting trial on charges ranging from murder to attempted murder to torture, are believed to have escaped shortly after a 5 a.m. physical body count, one of two that take place each day at the facility.
    They weren’t found to be missing until about 9 p.m. Friday, during the second daily headcount, which was to have started at 8 p.m. but was delayed by an altercation possibly staged to help delay discovery of the escape, Hallock said.
    Hossein Nayeri, 37, of Newport Beach, faced charges of kidnapping and torture for the abduction of a marijuana clinic owner who Nayeri allegedly drove to the desert and burned with a blowtorch.
    Nayeri fled the U.S. and was arrested in the Czech capital of Prague, then returned to Santa Ana to await trial.
    Jonathan Tieu, 20, of Fountain Valley, faced a murder charge in connection with a gang hit, prosecutors said, and Bac Duong, 43, of Santa Ana, faced an attempted murder charge and was being held without bail on an immigration hold pending a possible federal deportation hearing.
    Tieu’s mother and sister went on KABC7 to beg him to turn himself in to authorities.
    “Please just turn yourself in,” said sister Tiffany Tieu. “Don’t let this drag on.”
    The relatives said he did not kill anyone and that they believed he did not take part in planning the escape.
    “I feel he was manipulated or tricked into during this,” Tieu said.
    At least two of escapees had spent enough time at the jail to engineer a sophisticated escape, Hallock said, describing the breakout as “well thought out” and possibly the result of weeks or even months of planning.
    Steps have been taken since the escape to harden the facility against any more, Hallock said.
    The sheriff’s department released photos and a video that show, among other things, a cut quarter-inch steel grate inside the dormitory-style “tank” of about 60 inmates from which the inmates escaped, one of several makeshift ropes — this one found inside the tank after the escape, and what’s believed to be at least one of the suspects on the jail roof in the pre-dawn darkness.
    After reaching the ground, the suspects fled on foot, investigators believe.
    Rewards were offered — $20,000 by the FBI and $30,000 by the U.S. Marshals Service — for information leading to the capture of the three men.
    “We have had a number of very good tips that have got us on a good path, but as for actual sightings of these individuals, we have not (had any),” Hutchens said.
    “We continue to have three escapees who are very dangerous and I want to tell the public presume they are armed,” she said.
    The jail complex — which dates to 1968 and lacks some in-house services that are features of more secure modern jails and prisons — consists of three facilities housing about 900 inmates.
    Conducting numerous head counts during the day is not possible because detainees are in and out of the jail for various reasons, including court appearances and medical checks and treatment, Hutchens said.
    The entire complex is maximum security. There have been two prior escapes from the jail, both more than 20 years ago.
    It’s unclear whether the suspects had any help from the outside or if other inmates were involved in the escape, the sheriff said Sunday, but Hallock said the cut steel grate and makeshift linen rope depicted in the photographs were found in the tank, where other inmates would have been present.
    The sheriff’s department, Orange County District Attorney’s Office and Probation Department, the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI are involved in the search, which Hallock called “a 24-7 operation until these three individuals are caught.”
    Anyone who sees any of the suspects should call 911 immediately, and anyone with information regarding their possible whereabouts was urged to call a special hotline at [IMG]resource://skype_ff_extension-at-jetpack/skype_ff_extension/data/call_skype_logo.png[/IMG](714) 628-7085.
    Anonymous tips can be provided by calling Orange County Crime Stoppers at (855) TIP-OCCS.

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    ‘HE’S DIABOLICAL’: One of the 3 inmates who escaped from Calif. prison likened to Hannibal Lecter




    A PROSECUTOR pursuing a case against Hossein Nayeri, one of the three men who broke out of a Southern California prison, has likened the former Marine — who faces charges including kidnapping and torture — to the "Silence of the Lambs" serial killer.



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    'Diabolical': One of the Calif. prison escapees likened to Hannibal Lecter

    Published January 26, 2016 FoxNews.com

    NOW PLAYINGCalifornia manhunt intensifies for three escaped inmates
    A prosecutor pursuing a case against one of the three men who broke out of a Southern California prison reacted: "Oh, my God, they let Hannibal Lecter out."



    Hossein Nayeri. (Orange County Sheriff's Department via AP)


    Hossein Nayeri, a former Marine who had escaped to his native Iran in 2012, faces charges of kidnapping, torture, aggravated mayhem and burglary. Deputy District Attorney Heather Brown told The Orange County Register the man is "diabolical... sophisticated, incredibly violent and cunning.”

    Brown says Nayeri helped kidnap a marijuana dealer in 2012, burned him with a blow torch and forced another suspect cut off the dealer's penis because Nayeri thought the man had buried money in the desert. Soon afterwards, investigators say he left for Iran, but they caught him while he was on his way to Spain to visit family.


    “It’s mind-boggling that he was housed in a dorm with such low-level security,” the prosecutor said, comparing him to the serial killer made famous in the novel and movie "The Silence of the Lambs."


    The three fugitives reportedly had a head start of up to 16 hours before officials realized they were missing.


    Nayeri, Jonathan Tieu and Bac Duong were last seen and accounted for during the regularly scheduled 5 a.m. prisoner count at the Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana, according to The Los Angeles Times. The paper reported that a second check, when the men's escape was discovered, was delayed until 9 p.m. by a brawl that some investigators suspect may have been used to cover up the escape.


    Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jeff Hallock said Monday that authorities believe the men escaped soon after the 5 a.m. check.


    The three men sawed through a quarter-inch-thick grill on a dormitory wall and got into plumbing tunnels before sawing through half-inch-thick steel bars as they made their way behind walls to an unguarded area of a roof atop a five-story building. There, they moved aside razor wire and rappelled to the ground using the bed linen.


    The escape has drawn comparisons to last summer's breakout by two inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York. A major difference is that while the search for Richard Matt and David Sweat focused on nearby woods, Nayeri, Tieu and Duong escaped in the middle of densely populated Orange County.


    On Monday, investigators appealed to Orange County's huge Vietnamese population, among the largest in the U.S., in Garden Grove and Westminster just a few miles from the Santa Ana jail. Sheriff's Lt. Dave Sawyer, who is leading the investigation, said Tieu and Duong "may be embedded" there.


    "We sincerely need input from the community to help us," Sawyer said. Federal authorities are offering up to $50,000 in rewards for information leading to their recapture.


    Hallock said there is no evidence so far that the trio had help from the inside but authorities know it's a possibility.


    It's likely someone slipped them blueprints or told them how the bowels of the jail were laid out, he said.


    It was the first escape in nearly three decades from the California facility built in 1968. It holds 900 men and is located in Santa Ana, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles.


    Hallock said the facility's general 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 also unclear why the inmates — who were charged with violent felonies — were housed in a common dorm with more than 60 other inmates. Assignment to a large, busy room likely made it easier for them to avoid detection, Martin Horn, a professor of corrections at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York, told the Associated Press.


    Tieu, 20, had been held on a $1 million bond since October 2013 on charges of murder, attempted murder and shooting at an inhabited dwelling in an alleged gang dispute.


    Duong, 43, has been held without bond since last month on charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and other counts in the shooting of a man on his front porch.


    All three men have now been charged with another felony for the escape.

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    Escaped Inmate Was Ordered Deported to Vietnam in 1998


    • By AMY TAXIN AND GILLIAN FLACCUS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SANTA ANA, Calif. — Jan 26, 2016, 3:44 PM ET


    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.

    Bac Duong, 43, came to the United States legally in 1991 but was ordered removed seven years later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement. The statement did not say why.


    Duong 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.

    Under a 2008 agreement, Vietnam will provide travel documents to help repatriate immigrants but only those who entered the U.S. after July 1995.


    Duong and two other inmates escaped from an Orange County jail Friday by sawing through a quarter-inch thick grill on a dormitory wall and climbing through plumbing tunnels to reach an unguarded area of the roof, where they moved aside razor wire and rappelled to the ground using a bed linen.


    Duong and Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, are considered dangerous, and all were awaiting trial for separate violent felonies. They have now each been charged with the escape.


    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.


    Tieu had been held at the jail since 2013, accused of murder and attempted murder. Duong faced attempted murder and assault charges in the shooting of a man in November.


    Nayeri was arrested in 2014 on charges including kidnapping and torture. 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.


    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.


    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.


    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.


    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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    REWARD RISES TO $200,000 IN ORANGE COUNTY JAIL ESCAPE



    The reward has risen to $200,000 for information leading to the arrests of three men who escaped from a maximum-security jail in Santa Ana Friday by rappelling down four stories to freedom using ropes made from bedsheets.

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    By Christina Salvo and Greg Lee
    Tuesday, January 26, 2016 08:15PM

    SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) --

    The reward has risen to $200,000 for information leading to the arrests of three men who escaped from a maximum-security jail in Santa Ana Friday by cutting through metal, crawling through plumbing tunnels, climbing a roof and rappelling down four stories to freedom using ropes made from bedsheets.

    Jonathan Tieu, 20, Bac Duong, 43, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, were all awaiting trial for violent crimes but their cases were unconnected.

    The three inmates were last seen at 5 a.m. Friday at the Orange County Central Men's Jail. Their disappearance wasn't noticed until about 16 hours later when a nighttime count was conducted.

    Tieu is a well-documented Vietnamese gang member who 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, assault with a deadly weapon, shooting at an inhabited dwelling, being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm and other charges.

    Sheriff's deputies have since served at least 30 warrants in the investigation into their escape.

    PHOTOS: Evidence connected to inmates' escape from OC jail




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    Woman arrested for allegedly helping trio escape from Orange County jail


    Orange County Sheriff investigators check out the roof of Central Men's Jail from where three inmates escaped with the help of a makeshift rope of knotted bedsheets and cloth used to rappel down the building.
    (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)



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    A 44-year-old woman who allegedly aided three inmates who made a daring escape from Orange County's largest jail was arrested Thursday, officials said.

    The arrest confirms what many had already suspected, that fugitives Hossein Nayeri, Jonathan Tieu and Bac Duong received outside help when they broke out of the Men's Central Jail on Jan. 22.


    The woman, Nooshafarian Ravaghi, 44, was an English as a Second Language teacher at Rancho Santiago Community College and had been working as a contracted employee at the jail for the last six months,
    according to Lt. Jeffrey Hallock, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.


    Nayeri had been attending one of the woman's classes, and they developed a friendly relationship from there, according to Hallock, who said police believe she "directly contributed to the escape and provided credible planning tools."


    Ravaghi has denied providing the tools the inmates used to cut through several layers of steel during their escape. But Hallock said she did provide maps and other planning documents.

    She was arrested shortly before 4 p.m. on Thursday.

    Jonathan Tieu, left, Hossein Nayeri and Bac Duong escaped from the Orange County Men’s Central Jail last week.
    (Orange County's Sheriff's Department)



    Hallock also said police believe the fugitives are living out of a White GMC Savannah Utility Van which was stolen from South Los Angeles earlier this week. The trio stole the car after Duong replied to a CraigsList advertisement offering to sell the vehicle, Hallock said.

    The trio escaped from the Santa Ana lockup sometime after 5 a.m last Friday, cutting through four layers of steel, metal and rebar as they moved through the jail's plumbing tunnels and an air duct. They ascended to the roof, one floor above the dormitory area where they had been housed, and used a makeshift rope of knotted bedsheets and cloth to rappel down the side of the building.


    Alleged gang members arrested in O.C. jailbreak probe, but 3 escapees still at large

    They haven't been seen since.

    Police do not believe the men fled the country, or even the state. Investigators have turned their attention to the Little Saigon section of Westminster and Garden Grove, where Tieu lived. Tieu is also a known member of an area street gang, and Duong is a Vietnamese national.


    Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens appeared on several Vietnamese-language television and radio broadcasts Wednesday, asking for the public's help in finding the men. At the same time, the Sheriff's Office has turned up the pressure on the gang Tieu is affiliated with and other known associates of the fugitives.


    At least ten other people have been arrested since Wednesday as part of the escape investigation. Some of the men were gang members, others were detained because of probation violations.


    Hutchens has refused to identify those arrested or say what they are charged with. But L Hallock said some of those arrested were part of the same gang as Tieu.


    The department has not identified the gang, but court records show Tieu was one of several members of the Tiny Rascals, a large South Asian gang known to operate in Orange County and Long Beach, charged in a 2011 murder.


    The fact that a jail employee was involved in the escape plot is likely to stoke even more criticism of the Sheriff's Department, which has already been blasted for failing to detect the escape plot until late Friday night, more than 16 hours after the fugitives had vanished.


    On Wednesday, Hutchens announced changes to the jail's head-count policies, which corrections experts have said the escapees were able to exploit.


    Nayeri was awaiting trial in a brutal 2012 torture plot. Prosecutors allege he and several accomplices kidnapped a man, beat him, burned him with a blowtorch and severed his penis in an attempt to extort $1 million.


    Tieu was set to be retried in the 2011 gangland killing.

    Duong was arrested and charged with attempted murder in late 2015, prosecutors said.

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    One of three escaped Calif. inmates back in custody, sheriff says

    Published January 29, 2016 FoxNews.com

    One of three men who escaped a California jail last weekend was back in custody Friday, the county sheriff said.

    Bac Duong, 43, who had been ordered deported to Vietnam in 1998 but never left, contacted a civilian on the street in Santa Ana, Calif., and told that person he wanted to turn himself in, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said at an afternoon press briefing.


    Duong was originally being held at the Orange County Jail without bond since last month on charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, shooting at an inhabited dwelling, being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm and other charges.


    Two law enforcement sources told Fox News that Duong told police when he was taken into custody that a gang with which he was associated threatened to kill him if he did not surrender.


    Authorities had been regularly paying visits to Vietnamese gambling houses since Duong's escape, the sources said.


    Shortly after Duong was taken into custody, the Orange County Sheriff's Office YouTube account released video of his arrest.


    The two other escapees, Hossein Nayeri and Jonathan Tieu, are still at large.

    The men escaped early Jan. 22 from the Orange County jail after cutting a hole in a metal grate then crawling through plumbing tunnels and onto the roof of a five-story jail building.


    They pushed aside barbed wire and rappelled down using a rope made of bed sheets.


    It took jail staff 16 hours to realize the three men were missing because an assault on a guard delayed an evening head count.


    They were last seen at a 5 a.m. check but were not determined to be missing until 16 hours later partially because an assault on a guard delayed an evening census.


    Hutchens, who oversees the jail, has said she was extremely troubled by how long it took to discover the inmates were gone.


    Immigration authorities and records indicate Duong had been ordered deported to Vietnam in 1998 but remained in the country and racked up a lengthy rap sheet.


    For many years, Vietnam did not honor U.S. government requests to repatriate deportees. In 2008, Vietnam agreed to provide travel documents for deportees but only those who entered the U.S. since July 1995.


    Nayeri, the probable mastermind in the escape, had help from a woman whose English classes he was taking while locked up, authorities allege.


    It was the first escape in nearly three decades from the California facility built in 1968. The jail holds 900 men and is located in Santa Ana, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles.


    The escape raised questions about security at the jail in suburban Orange County and resembled a similar breakout last summer at a state prison in upstate New York.


    In that case, two inmates also cut through a wall that was hidden by a bunk bed and used the hole to access piping and tunnels that led outside.

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    OC escapee gives up with plea to friend: Call police

    SANTA ANA, Calif.—For days, Tri and Theresa Nguyen had seen their friend’s face splashed on television and wanted posters after he and two other inmates had escaped from an Orange County jail.

    They wondered where Bac Duong was and what he might do if confronted by authorities.

    The couple were stunned Friday morning when one of Orange County’s most wanted men walked into the family’s auto body shop on North Harbor Boulevard in Santa Ana. Duong, 43, looked nervous and pale, almost sickly, appearing nothing like the scowling man seen in mugshots broadcast nationwide, said Lee Tran, Theresa’s brother.

    He milled around the store for a few seconds before Theresa recognized him. She rushed toward Duong, asking how she could help and where he had been, Tri Nguyen said.

    Duong had a simple request: Call police. Then he stepped outside to smoke a cigarette while he waited to be taken back to jail.

    Within 20 minutes, law enforcement officers from across Orange County swarmed the store and Duong was taken into custody about 11:30 a.m., the first capture in a sprawling manhunt sparked by a brazen escape last week from the Men’s Central Jail in Santa Ana, police said.

    “I feel good for him because he did the right thing,” Tri Nguyen said. “He doesn’t have to run around anymore.”

    Duong’s surrender came just 12 hours after police made their most public show of force yet in the now weeklong hunt for the escapees. Carrying rifles and wearing tactical gear, dozens of Orange County sheriff’s deputies hung from the sides of armored vehicles as they flooded Westminster Avenue on Thursday night, conducting searches of a warehouse and a home.

    Police have been increasing pressure on local gangs while asking Little Saigon’s residents for help in tracking down the three fugitives — Duong, Jonathan Tieu and Hossein Nayeri.

    As part of the investigation, dozens of search warrants have been executed and at least 10 people have been arrested, some of whom belong to a street gang Tieu is affiliated with, sheriff’s officials said.

    A source familiar with the investigation said Friday that police have been hammering those with ties to Vietnamese organized crime to “rattle the tree and shake these guys out.”

    Police have carried out almost daily raids against Vietnamese crime groups and local street gangs in the hopes that the pressure might result in a surrender, according to the source, who did not have permission to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.

    The three men escaped last week by cutting through several layers of metal, steel and rebar on their way to the facility’s roof, before rappelling down the side of the building shortly after 5 a.m. on Jan. 22.

    They vanished after a 5 a.m. head count, and the escape went undetected for at least 16 hours until deputies conducted a second inmate count.

    Lt. Jeff Hallock, a Sheriff’s Department spokesman, said investigators believe the men have been living out of a white 2008 GMC Savana that was stolen in South Los Angeles the day after the escape.

    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.

    Nayeri and Tieu remain on the loose. Hallock said investigators think they are in the San Jose area, and may be headed to Fresno.

    Police are also trying to determine the extent of the relationship between Nayeri and Nooshafarin Ravaghi, a 44-year-old jailhouse English teacher who was arrested Thursday on suspicion she aided in the escape.

    Ravaghi is accused of providing printed images of the jail from Google Earth that would have allowed Nayeri to view the roof of the complex.

    Hallock said Friday that authorities were investigating whether the pair’s relationship was romantic and said it was “much closer and much more personal than it should have been.”

    Duong, a Vietnamese national who entered the country legally in 1991, was charged with attempted murder last month.

    An immigration judge ordered him deported in 1998, but Duong launched several appeals, which were exhausted in 2003, according to a statement issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    At the time, the Vietnamese government rarely accepted deportees from the U.S. and refused to take Duong.

    He was freed in 2004 and reported regularly to ICE officials. In 2008, Vietnam signed an agreement with the U.S. to accept deportees but only those who had arrived in the U.S. after July 12, 1995.

    Immigration officials recently filed paperwork to detain Duong after he was charged in December.

    (EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE)

    Tri Nguyen said he and his girlfriend, Theresa, had known Duong for about 10 years. They met in the Little Saigon neighborhood where Duong had rented rooms for the last decade.

    Duong at one point worked in the area as a furniture deliveryman, and also occasionally found work on construction sites.

    Nguyen said he believed that Duong had been divorced for several years and has two sons who live in San Diego.

    When he entered the store on Friday morning, Duong was wearing a white shirt and jeans. His hair was shaved into a buzz cut and he “did not look anything like his picture,” on the wanted posters, said Tim Tran, the owner of the auto body shop where Duong surrendered.

    Tran’s son, Lee, said investigators with the U.S. Marshal’s Service visited the store four days ago after jail records revealed that Theresa Nguyen had visited Duong at the Santa Ana lockup.

    Speaking to a throng of reporters outside the store on Friday afternoon, employee Michael Knoski suggested Duong ran to the store because he wanted the manhunt to end peacefully.

    “He knows us. He wants to feel safe,” Knoski said. “That’s why he came here.”

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