Escapee Gets 15 Years in Other Case
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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