Inmate Escapes Jail 2nd Time in 2 Months
A man described by authorities as a “one-man crime wave” escaped from Los Angeles County Jail for the second time in less than two months, the district attorney’s office said Tuesday.
Prosecutors said they learned of William Anderson’s escape only after he failed to appear in Norwalk Superior Court for sentencing Tuesday in a kidnaping and robbery case.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Dinko Bozanich said he does not know precisely when Anderson escaped, but believes that he fled Monday from the main jail near downtown.
The district attorney’s office said Anderson, 25, was recaptured after his first escape June 14. Prosecutors called Anderson a “one-man crime wave” because he has seven other criminal cases pending against him in addition to the kidnaping and robbery case. Anderson has also used at least 13 aliases, they said.
Anderson was to be sentenced for his June 14 conviction for kidnaping a man at gunpoint in South Gate while taking the man’s car, which was for sale, on a test drive in July, 1988. Anderson then forced the man out of the vehicle in Compton and stole the auto, Bozanich said.
Anderson’s first escape occurred just hours after that conviction.
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