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| Teens captured after beating officer |
| By Union-Tribune |
| Published: 05/03/2004 |
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Deputies last week recaptured two inmates who escaped from a California youth correctional facility after an officer was beaten on the head with a steel garden tool Thursday, April 22, the Sheriff's Department said. After several sightings reported by passers-by, a California Highway Patrol officer spotted the two 17-year-old boys walking near Arnold Way and Harbison Canyon Road about 7 a.m. - several miles from where a stolen van used in the escape was found a day earlier. The CHP officer held the boys at gunpoint until deputies arrived, Sheriff's Department spokesman Chris Saunders said. The teens, who were not wearing shirts, suffered numerous scratches from running through thick brush in the mountainous terrain. A third teen, who said he was in a portable toilet hitched to the van when it was stolen, had surrendered shortly after the escape. The injured officer, a county probation officer, was expected to be released from a hospital last week, Saunders said. Doctors reattached one of the officer's ears and treated deep cuts on his head, suffered when one of the inmates hit him with a rakelike tool, Saunders said. He also may have a broken hand and wrist. The officer is a 51-year-old Spring Valley resident, Probation Department spokesman Derryl Acosta said. He has worked for the department for six years, the last two at Camp Barrett, a 125-bed facility for juvenile offenders on Lyons Valley Road in Japatul Valley east of Alpine. |
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