Sheriff: Remaining Two Escaped California Inmates Caught

Two inmates who had escaped from a Santa Ana jail more than a week ago were in custody, authorities announced Saturday.

Hossein Nayeri and Jonathan Tieu were taken into custody in San Francisco, the Orange County Sheriff's Office announced on its Twitter feed.
The news comes a day after Bac Duong, the third prisoner in the group, turned himself in. Duong walked up to a Southern California auto shop where a friend works, had her call police and stood and smoked a cigarette until he was arrested.

Duong, 43, then told investigators that a day earlier he had been in Northern California with the other two inmates before breaking off to turn himself in, authorities said. Nayeri and Tieu were believed to have been in San Jose and driving a van that the men stole a day after their escape.

The three men had all been jailed and awaiting trial for separate violent crimes. They were held in a dormitory with about 65 other men in the jail about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
The men escaped in the early morning hours after cutting a hole in a metal grate then crawling through plumbing tunnels and onto the roof of a four-story jail building.

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

It took jail staff 16 hours to realize the three men were missing.

On Thursday, authorities arrested a woman who taught English inside the jail. 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.

She was booked on suspicion of being an accessory to a felony and was being held pending a court appearance set for Monday. It wasn't clear if she had a lawyer.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.