SOLEDAD — Less than 24
hours after being reported missing, authorities captured 2 California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) inmates who escaped from
the minimum-support facility at Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) on Sunday, May
6.
At approximately 2:45
am on Monday morning, May 7, CDCR Special Service Unit and Fugitive Apprehension
Team officers, operating on information developed during the investigation,
located 23-year-old Richard P. Almanza and 35-year-old Jonathan J. Damiano at a
hotel in the Del Paso Heights area in Sacramento. They were quickly taken into
custody without incident and are being transported back to the Salinas Valley State Prison.
Almanza and Damiano
were reported missing at approximately 8:55 am on Sunday morning, May 6.
Notification was immediately made to local law enforcement agencies to assist
in the search.
Almanza was received
by CDCR in July of 2016, from Santa Barbara and is serving a 4 year, 8 month
sentence for burglary in the 1st degree and manufacturing/possession of a
blackjack as a 2nd striker, while Damiano was received by CDCR in August of 2017
from Sacramento and is serving a 3 year sentence for burglary in the 2nd degree. Both may face charges in this incident.
Since 1977, 99% of all offenders who have left an adult institution, camp or community-based
program without permission have been apprehended.
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