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| Officers capture three jail fugitives |
| By The Press-Enterprise |
| Published: 02/18/2004 |
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Four prisoners shimmied up a utility shaft at the Southwest Detention Center east of Murrieta, Calif. in a rooftop jailbreak after bed check Monday night, officials said. Three of the escapees were captured Tuesday afternoon at a home in Homeland, east of Perris. A hunt for the fourth man, a murder suspect, continued into the night. The men apparently escaped through the vent to the roof of the jail and were discovered missing at about 6 a.m. Tuesday, Riverside County Sheriff's Department officials said. The jail sits in the middle of a residential area of Riverside County. More than 50 deputies and Murrieta police officers mounted an air and ground search for the men, all of whom had been in custody on felony charges. The escapees were identified as roommates Nathaniel Decarlo Sapp, 18, of Riverside, who has been charged with murder; Ryan Esteban Concepcion, 23, of Lake Elsinore, who was on trial for carjacking; Thomas Michael Potter, 24, of Lake Elsinore, charged with robbery, and Trung Minh Lu, 22, of Riverside, facing burglary charges. An anonymous tip led to the capture of all except Sapp early Tuesday afternoon, police said. Sapp was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on charges of murder and carjacking in the stabbing death of a 62-year-old Riverside man last month. Riverside County Deputy District Attorney John Ruiz said John Young died in an apartment parking lot and that Sapp was found with Young's car. Ruiz said a special-circumstances enhancement has been filed against Sapp and that prosecutors will decide later whether to seek the death penalty. Another of the escapees, Concepcion, was scheduled to appear in court for a jury trial on Tuesday on charges he stole a car at gunpoint. Assistant District Attorney Rod Pacheco said Concepcion's trial commenced without him, because the law allows the court to proceed when someone chooses to be absent, he said. |
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