Fountain Valley Police Arrest Prison Escapee From Mich.
Fountain Valley police arrested an escaped felon from Michigan this morning after running a routine check of his Michigan license plate.
Juan J. Mireles, 25, was arrested without incident along with three other men from Michigan as they walked to their car in the parking lot at the Econo Lodge near Magnolia Avenue and the San Diego Freeway shortly after midnight.
Mireles had been serving a 5- to 15-year sentence for breaking and entering an occupied home, Michigan State Police Sgt. Bill Sholten said. But Mireles escaped from Camp Tuscola, a minimum-security prison camp in Caro, Mich., on Nov. 12. He was held in Orange County Jail without bail.
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