The four boys ditched the honor camp Sunday, July 12. One by one, Sheriff’s deputies found and caught each boy near their respective neighborhoods.
Ken Pesso, county Sheriff’s Office deputy chief of juvenile institutions and juvenile probations, said the last of the four boys was apprehended at about 6:30 a.m. at a home in Menlo Park.
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“I think if they were more violent or involved in criminal activity they’d be harder to find,” added Pesso, noting that none of the boys resisted arrest or were caught with contraband.
The Sheriff’s Office can’t release the names or offenses of the escapees because they are minors. All four are being held at Hillcrest Youth Services Center in unincorporated San Mateo, and now face charges of “escape from youth authority.”
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