1 of 3 escaped Southern California inmates surrenders
LOS ANGELES — One of three inmates who escaped a week ago from a maximum-security jail unit in Southern California has been taken into custody after surrendering to law enforcement, police said on Friday.
Bac Duong, 43, turned himself in to police in Santa Ana, California, shortly before noon, Orange County Sheriff's spokeswoman Sandra Hutchens told a news conference.
The other two escaped inmates remained at large on Friday afternoon.
A community college instructor who taught at the jail and had befriended one of the fugitives was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of assisting in the escape by furnishing the inmates with Google Maps information.
Nooshafarin Ravaghi, 44, taught English to the presumed mastermind of last Friday's jailhouse getaway, Hossein Nayeri, 37, who is of Iranian descent.
Nayeri, who is accused of the mutilation torture of a kidnap victim in 2012, fled from the Orange County Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana with two other inmates, both reputed to be connected with Vietnamese-American street gangs — Duong and Jonathan Tieu, 20, who is charged with murder.
Hallock said it was Duong who took what was supposed to be a test drive in a utility van advertised for sale in south Los Angeles on Sunday and then never came back. Duong was in jail facing attempted murder charges.
