4 teens escape O.C. detention camp

Authorities asked for the public’s help Wednesday in their search for four youths who made a violent escape Sunday from a juvenile detention camp in Orange County’s Cleveland National Forest.

The boys allegedly fought their way out of the low-security Los Pinos Conservation Camp shortly before midnight. When a Probation Department deputy tried to stop them, one of the boys struck him with a heavy metal pipe, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.

The boys had allegedly slipped out of their rooms as their fellow inmates slept. Anthony Soto, 17, of Los Angeles and Roberto Marin Calvo, 16, of Anaheim broke into a locker to grab two 3-foot-long metal pipes, officials said.

They were joined by Rigoberto Rodriguez, 16, of Anaheim and Eric Eduardo Garcia, 16, of San Clemente, according to Amormino.

Rodriguez was being held for a battery conviction, Calvo for carrying a concealed gun as a minor, drug possession and a probation violation, Garcia for violating his probation, and Soto for escaping from another facility, Amormino said.

Their names and photos were released as the result of a decision by a juvenile judge to declare them a risk to the public.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff’s Department at (949) 425-1901 or (714) 628-7170.

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