Teens charged for aiding jail break
Published: Feb. 17, 2008 at 9:54 AM
SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Two youths have been arrested for allegedly helping a 17-year-old accused killer escape a California detention facility, it was reported Sunday.
Police say the teenagers helped Jose Raul Orozco flee the San Mateo County Youth Services Center on Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Orozco was awaiting trial for allegedly killing a rival gang member.
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office says Martin Villa Patino, 18, and Vanher Cho, 18, helped Orozco scale a 10-foot concrete security wall. He escaped through the hole in the fence that surrounds the exercise area, they said.
Patino and Cho, who were imprisoned at the Youth Services Center on juvenile holds, have been charged with criminal conspiracy, street-gang enhancement and aiding in an escape, the newspaper reported.
Orozco had been held at the juvenile facility since he was arrested at age 14 for his alleged role in the shooting death of a 21-year-old Redwood City, Calif., man in 2005.
His trial is scheduled for May.
Police say the teenagers helped Jose Raul Orozco flee the San Mateo County Youth Services Center on Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Orozco was awaiting trial for allegedly killing a rival gang member.
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office says Martin Villa Patino, 18, and Vanher Cho, 18, helped Orozco scale a 10-foot concrete security wall. He escaped through the hole in the fence that surrounds the exercise area, they said.
Patino and Cho, who were imprisoned at the Youth Services Center on juvenile holds, have been charged with criminal conspiracy, street-gang enhancement and aiding in an escape, the newspaper reported.
Orozco had been held at the juvenile facility since he was arrested at age 14 for his alleged role in the shooting death of a 21-year-old Redwood City, Calif., man in 2005.
His trial is scheduled for May.
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