Escapee Gets 15 Years in Other Case
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Victor Age, one of five inmates who escaped from the new federal prison in downtown Los Angeles last month, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday under a law requiring harsh penalties for armed career criminals.
Age, 31, was awaiting sentencing on firearms violations when he and four other men hacked through a metal mesh enclosure on an eighth-floor exercise balcony of the Metropolitan Detention Center on June 17 and descended to freedom on a string of bedsheets.
He was recaptured June 24 in Anaheim.
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