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By City News Service Apr 15, 2021 SAN GABRIEL (CNS) - A man convicted of grand theft who left a rehabilitation facility without authorization two months ago was taken into custody in San Gabriel today. Richard Ledesma walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles on Feb. 12, according to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation official. Ledesma was taken into custody without incident Wednesday afternoon at about 2:45 p.m, authorities said. He will ...

By City News Service Feb 6, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A 28-year-old convicted burglar who walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles was being sought by authorities this morning.   About 7:30 p.m. Friday, officials determined Miguel A. Chacon had left without authorization and agents from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations Office of Correctional Safety were dispatched to locate and apprehend him.   Chacon is Hispanic, 5 feet, 6 inches...

Print Nine men, all serving the last of their prison terms in a halfway house, were charged Thursday with defrauding the state unemployment fund of $160,000 in benefits, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced. The arrests and charges are part of a larger investigation into prison inmates across the state who are suspected of defrauding the program of as much as $2 billion. The scam was uncovered in December, and locally District Attorney Summer Stephan has said that inmates...

9 San Diego prison inmates charged in California unemployment benefits fraud scheme Copyright Associated Press and last updated 2021-01-14 14:24:32-05 SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Nine men in San Diego County are facing felony charges stemming from a statewide unemployment fraud scandal among California prison and jail inmates, the District Attorneys Office announced Thursday. The defendants, who allegedly committed the fraud between June and September of last year, were assigned to the Male Community Ree...

By City News Service Dec 30, 2020 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A 29-year-old inmate who left a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles without permission a week ago was apprehended today. Authorities realized on Dec. 22 about 7:50 p.m. that Jones Booker, who was serving a nearly three-year sentence for burglary, had walked away from the community reentry facility where he had been housed for about a month, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Agents f...

By City News Service Dec 30, 2020 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A 29-year-old inmate who left a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles without permission a week ago was apprehended today. Authorities realized on Dec. 22 about 7:50 p.m. that Jones Booker, who was serving a nearly three-year sentence for burglary, had walked away from the community reentry facility where he had been housed for about a month, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Agents f...