A robbery inmate who escaped from an Acton Conservation Camp on Monday was apprehended on Tuesday in San Diego, officials said.
Acting on investigative leads, agents from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (COULDCR) Special Service Unit Rancho Cucamonga, with the assistance of the San Diego Police Department and the Chula Vista Police Department, Christian Ledon, 19, was arrested, according to the CDCR.
Ledon was taken into custody at the Payless Car Rental, located at the San Diego Airport, without incident and was transported to the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.
During an inmate count at around 7 a.m. on Monday, staff discovered Ledon was missing.
A search of the camp buildings and grounds was immediately conducted.
COULDCR’S Office of Correctional Safety, CAL FIRE, the California Highway Patrol and local law enforcement agencies were notified and assisted in the search.
Ledon was committed to COULDCR on May 30, 2019, from San Diego County to serve a four-year sentence for second-degree robbery.
He was scheduled to be released in July 2021. The case will be forwarded to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for felony prosecution, and he is set to be no longer eligible to be housed in a fire camp.
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