One of three inmates who escaped California jail, Turns Himself In...

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This undated photo provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Office shows Bac Duong, one of three inmates who escaped Jan. 22 from the county's Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif.
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This undated photo provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Office shows Bac Duong, one of three inmates who escaped Jan. 22 from the county's Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif.

One of the three violent inmates who escaped from an Orange County, Calif., jail was captured a handful of miles from the facility Friday, police said.
Bac Duong, 43, who has been linked with a Vietnamese gang based nearby, was brought back into custody, said Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens. The sheriff's department released video of him being led into its headquarters while cuffed.
Duong, Hossein Nayeri, 37, and Jonathan Tieu, 20, got out of the maximum-security Orange County Men’s Central Jail last week by cutting through steel bars, crawling through tunnels and rappelling from its roof, according to prison officials.
Duong is accused of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and other charges in a November shooting in Santa Ana, where the jail dormitory he escaped from sits about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles. He had been in the country illegally and amassing a long rap sheet after he was supposed to be deported 16 years earlier.
Investigators believe he stole a white utility van the three escaped inmates were living in, The Orange County Register reported. He was captured at the Auto Electric Rebuilders shop a few miles away from the jail.
Duong flagged down a civilian around noon Friday and said he wanted to surrender, Hutchens said. Neither the van nor the other suspects had been found Friday afternoon, she said.
A English teacher, Nooshafarian Ravaghi, 44, was among ten people arrested on suspicion of aiding in their Jan. 22 getaway.

L-R Jonathan Tieu, 20, Bac Duong, 43, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, got out of Orange County Central Men’s Jail through an elaborate escape.

L-R Jonathan Tieu, 20, Bac Duong, 43, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, got out of Orange County Central Men’s Jail through an elaborate escape.

Investigators said Ravaghi taught Nayeri, the escape ringleader, and struck up a relationship with him. The pair sent each other handwritten notes of a "personal nature," Orange County Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Hallock said.
"It wasn't the relationship that you would expect between a teacher and an inmate in a custody setting," he said.
With News Wire Services.