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One of three inmates who escaped from a jail in Orange County, California, was re-arrested Friday after he surrendered to police, according to authorities. Fugitive inmate Bac Duong, 43, of Santa Ana, disappeared from the jail early Jan. 22, along with Jonathan Tieu,20, of Fountain Valley, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, of Newport Beach. Duong was taken into custody Friday after he approached someone on a Santa Ana street and asked to contact police, said OC Sheriff Sandra Hutchens.
One week after escaping from the Orange County Central Men’s Jail, one of the suspects Bac Duong, 43, surrendered. (Photo: Orange County Sheriff’s Department)
Bac Duong, 43, turned himself in to Santa Ana police at 11:21 a.m. in the 1400 block of North Harbor Boulevard after a friend or acquaintance called police, said Santa Ana Police Sgt. Don Humphrey.
Television footage showed officers clad in body armor sweeping a business called Auto Electric Builders near the place where Duong surrendered. Moving with their rifles and handguns aimed, the officers could be seen peering into vehicles on the lot.
Tri Nguyen, the son-in-law of the business owner, said Duong walked into the business around 11 a.m. and told Nguyen’s wife, Theresa, that he wanted to turn himself in. His wife called police, and very soon after, the business was swarmed by authorities, he said.
Duong allegedly shot a man Nov. 18, 2015 after an argument on the patio of a Santa Ana home. He was charged with one felony count of attempted murder, one felony count of assault with a firearm, one felony count of first-degree residential burglary, one felony count of shooting at an inhabited dwelling or house, one felony count of assault with a firearm with sentencing enhancements for the personal use of a firearm, personal discharge of a firearm and great bodily injury.
The arrest comes after news of a teacher at Central Men’s Jail in Orange County, who had a “significant role” in the planning of the jailbreak. The 44-year-old Lake Forest woman was arrested Thursday on suspicion of accessory to a felony in helping the inmates escape from lockup in downtown Santa Ana.
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