Three maximum security inmates from the Orange County Jail remain at large, and authorities believe they are hiding in a stolen van somewhere in Southern California.
A 44-year-old English as a Second Language teacher was taken into custody on Thursday on suspicion of aiding three maximum-security inmates carry out a brazen escape in Southern California.
The Orange County Sheriff's Department believes Nooshafarian Ravaghi, 44, provided information, including Google maps, to the inmates and may have also given them tools to cut through a steel grate and inch-thick metal bars.
Jonathan Tieu, 20, Hossein Nayeri, 37, and Bac Duong, 43 — who were described as armed and dangerous — remain at large, sheriff's Lt. Jeff Hallock said at a news conference. Upwards of 10 people have so far been arrested on suspicion of helping the men, some of whom officials say belong to a Vietnamese-American gang in Orange County.
Orange County Sheriff's Department
As of Thursday, new leads have made officials confident the men remain in Southern California and are still together, Hallock said.
"We're extremely encouraged as of today," Hallock said.
The men are believed to be living out of a white GMC van, which was reported stolen on Sunday. A man matching Duong's description responded in south Los Angeles to an online ad to buy the van, then disappeared with it while out on a test drive, Hallock said.
SOURCE: BuzzFeed
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