California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced Thursday the apprehension of an inmate who walked away from the Acton Conservation Camp on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025.

Jessie Meza, 38, was apprehended without incident in Bakersfield at approximately 10:20 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. He will be rehoused at a prison and his case will be referred to the Los Angeles County District Attorney for possible escape charges, according to the CDCR.

Meza was received from Kern County on March 11, 2022, to serve 16 years for assault with a firearm with an enhancement for use of a firearm and possessing a firearm as a felon, both second-strike offenses, and vandalism.

Since 1977, 99 percent of all people who have left an adult institution, camp, or in-state contract bed or Community Rehabilitative Program Placement have been apprehended.

Ed. Note: The above information was provided to KHTS by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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