Inmate found 8 hours after leaving work crew
A jail inmate who walked away from a road work crew was arrested eight hours later, authorities said Tuesday.
Saul Dimla, 28, was spotted about 8 p.m. Monday driving a friend’s vehicle in Orange. The inmate, who had dyed his hair blond and changed his clothes, was arrested without a struggle, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.
The hunt began early Monday, after he disappeared from a James A. Musick Branch Jail crew working on a flood control channel in Brea.
Serving time for writing a bad check and a drug violation, Dimla had been scheduled for release in three months but now faces up to five more years in prison on charges of felony escape, Amormino said.
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