CYA WARD IN CUSTODY; ORANGE COUNTY STAKEOUT PAYS OFF.Byline: Cecilia Chan Daily News Staff Writer An 18-year-old ward from the youth detention center For the MTV show Juvies, see .  It has been suggested that Reform school, Reformatory be merged into this article or section. who walked away
Monday from a work detail in Ojai was apprehended in Santa Ana Santa Ana, city, El SalvadorSanta Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , authorities said Friday. Larry Sanchez Jr. was taken into custody at 9:20 p.m. Thursday by the Ventura Youth Authority facility's Gang Intervention and Apprehension The seizure and arrest of a person who is suspected of having committed a crime. A reasonable belief of the possibility of imminent injury or death at the hands of another that justifies a person acting in Self-Defense against the potential attack. Unit and the Department of Justice, said Cynthia Brown, spokeswoman for the Camarillo youth facility. ``Our gang intervention unit staked out several areas and (Sanchez) arrived at one of those areas in a car and was pulled over,'' Brown said. ``Everyone in the vehicle cooperated and he was taken into custody.'' Brown said Sanchez was riding in a car with several friends. Sanchez is a member of the Prestige Gang of Santa Ana but Brown could not verify if the people he was with were gang members. Officers from the Camarillo facility were en route Friday to the youth authority's facility in Norwalk to pick up Sanchez, who will be incarcerated incarcerated /in·car·cer·at·ed/ (in-kahr´ser-at?ed) imprisoned; constricted; subjected to incarceration. in·car·cer·at·ed adj. Confined or trapped, as a hernia. at the Ventura County jail for prosecution by the district attorney. If he is convicted on escape charges, he will be sentenced to an adult prison, officials said. Sanchez was working with 16 other wards, clearing heavy brush in Ojai, when he was discovered missing during a head count conducted at 2:25 p.m. Monday, officials said. After the initial 24-hour search in west Ventura County turned cold, authorities suspected that Sanchez had hitchhiked out of the area. Sanchez, who is from Tustin, was admitted to the facility in July to serve time for first-degree burglary and discharge of a firearm firearm, device consisting essentially of a straight tube to propel shot, shell, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder. Although the Chinese discovered gunpowder as early as the 9th cent., they did not develop firearms until the mid-14th cent. in a school area. He joined the facility's camp program in November and was due for release April 2000 but with good behavior Orderly and lawful action; conduct that is deemed proper for a peaceful and law-abiding individual. The definition of good behavior depends upon how the phrase is used. credits he would have been eligible for release in nine months, authorities said. |
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