Homeless Man Who Found Orange County Prison Escapees May Get Up To $100,000 Reward
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A new report says a homeless man deserves up to $100,000 for helping recapture two violent Orange County jail escapees.
The staff report released Wednesday recommends awarding Matthew Hay-Chapman for alerting police last month that the pair were in San Francisco. He spotted the stolen van they were using.
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Orange County supervisors may vote on awarding the county money later this month.
Three escapees - Bac Duong, Hossein Nayeri and Jonathan Tieu - cut through steel plates and bars and climbed down the roof of a county maximum-security jail on Jan. 22.
They took a taxi driver hostage, then stole the van and fled to Northern California.
Duong helped the taxi driver flee and surrendered a week after the escape. Tieu and Nayeri were caught the next day.
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