11-27-2016, 10:48 AM
CALIFORNIA
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Authorities asked for the public’s help in tracking down a pair of potentially dangerous California prisoners who cut through the bars of a jail window on Thanksgiving Eve, rappelled to the ground on a bedsheet rope and escaped.
Santa Clara County sheriff’s Sgt. Rich Glennon said four inmates got out through a second-floor window of the county’s main jail late Wednesday. Two men were quickly back in cuffs -- but the other two men are on the lam.
Glennon identified the men as Rogelio Chavez and Laron Campbell (pictured above), who are facing possible life sentences if convicted of burglary, extortion, false imprisonment and other charges they were being held on.
Authorities didn’t know if they’re armed, but said they should be considered dangerous.
Authorities released photos of the severed bars and the bedsheet tied to one of them, but said they didn’t know what tools the inmates used or how they had gotten them.
“No cutting instruments were located inside the cell or in the surrounding area,” Glennon said, according to the Associated Press. Glennon said the way the bars were cut indicated the escape was planned.
Authorities asked for the public’s help in finding them and warned that anyone who sees them should call 911 rather than try to apprehend them.
Full story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rogelio-chav...seek-help/
Authorities asked for the public’s help in tracking down a pair of potentially dangerous California prisoners who cut through the bars of a jail window on Thanksgiving Eve, rappelled to the ground on a bedsheet rope and escaped.
Santa Clara County sheriff’s Sgt. Rich Glennon said four inmates got out through a second-floor window of the county’s main jail late Wednesday. Two men were quickly back in cuffs -- but the other two men are on the lam.
Glennon identified the men as Rogelio Chavez and Laron Campbell (pictured above), who are facing possible life sentences if convicted of burglary, extortion, false imprisonment and other charges they were being held on.
Authorities didn’t know if they’re armed, but said they should be considered dangerous.
Authorities released photos of the severed bars and the bedsheet tied to one of them, but said they didn’t know what tools the inmates used or how they had gotten them.
“No cutting instruments were located inside the cell or in the surrounding area,” Glennon said, according to the Associated Press. Glennon said the way the bars were cut indicated the escape was planned.
Authorities asked for the public’s help in finding them and warned that anyone who sees them should call 911 rather than try to apprehend them.
Full story: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rogelio-chav...seek-help/