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Rogelio Chavez,
33, was detained at an apartment in San Jose and found under the
influence of narcotics, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith
told reporters.
He escaped Santa Clara County jail last week with another
inmate, 26-year-old Laron Campbell, who was captured on Tuesday
night at his sister's house in the Bay Area city of Antioch,
Santa Clara County Undersheriff Carl Neusel said.
Police had been serving a warrant at the house when Campbell
crashed through the ceiling from the attic above and was
arrested.
Chavez was being held pending trial on a number of burglary,
extortion and false imprisonment charges. Campbell was facing
trial on robbery, false imprisonment and criminal threats
charges. Both men face life in prison if convicted, local media
reported.
The prisoners used clothes to climb down the side of the
building, according to the sheriff's office, which provided
photos of the garments wrapped around the sliced bars. Two other
inmates who broke out of the jail with the pair were caught
immediately, the sheriff's office said.
A woman in the apartment with Chavez was arrested for
obstructing law enforcement, being a felon in possession of a
firearm and being an accessory in Chavez's escape, police said.
Campbell's sister, Marcaysha Alexander, was detained on
suspicion of harboring a fugitive, Neusel added.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco and Brendan
O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Andrew
Heavens)
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