Deputies Arrest Last of 3 Escapees
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SANTA ANA — Sixteen hours of investigative work paid off Saturday when Orange County sheriff’s deputies arrested the last of three prisoners who had escaped from a jail bus the day before.
Son Hong Nguyen, 23, of Santa Ana, who is charged with killing a man and setting his body on fire, was arrested about 7:45 a.m. as he rode a bicycle on a Santa Ana street, wearing a white T-shirt, jail-issue pants and a red baseball cap, residents said.
Officials say he was among a trio of inmates who kicked out the back window of a jail bus when it stopped at a red light in Westminster just before 4 p.m.
Two of the prisoners were caught within four hours in a massive manhunt around the scene of the breakout.
Nguyen and the two other prisoners, Robert A. Pandolfi, 25, and Lester Clarence Tuthill, 36, of Cypress, remain in Orange County Jail, sheriff’s officials said.
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