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Inmates escape jail with homemade rope, police say
Police in central California are on the hunt for six men they say escaped from a jail late Saturday night by scaling down its walls from the roof with homemade rope.Google Map Street View
Police in central California are on the hunt for five of the six men they say escaped from jail late Saturday night by scaling down its walls from the roof with homemade rope.
Sheriff: 6 inmates used homemade rope to escape California jail, including murder suspect
Merced Count Sheriff s Office
Inmates who escaped California jail with homemade rope
and last updated 2021-01-11 14:29:18-05
MERCED COUNTY, Calif. â Authorities in California say six inmates, including a man charged with murder, used a âhomemade ropeâ to escape a jail over the weekend.
The Merced County Sheriffâs Office says its jail staff learned the inmates were missing from their cell late Saturday night.
A preliminary investigation by the sheriffâs office has determined the men were able to gain access to the facilityâs roof and used the rope to scale down the side of the building.
It said the inmates were able to get to the roof of the facility in downtown Merced and then used the rope to scale down the side of the building, Los Angeles Times reported.
The escapees were listed as Jorge Barron, 20, of Atwater, Calif.; Gabriel Francis Coronado, 19, of Atwater; Manuel Allen Leon, 21, of Vallejo, Calif.; Andres Nunez Rodriguez Jr., 21 of Planada, Calif.; Fabian Cruz Roman, 22 of Los Banos, Calif.; and Edgar Eduardo Ventura, 22 of Portland, Ore.
Roman is facing a murder charge. Coronado and Rodriguez Jr. are charged with attempted murder, shooting at an inhabited dwelling, participation in a criminal street gang and being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Times.