Authorities in California are on the lookout for six inmates who escaped from a jail on Sunday after scaling down the walls with a homemade rope.
The prisoners, all 19 to 22 years old, were reported missing from their cells just before midnight, the sheriff of Merced County said in a statement. Investigators said the men gained access to the roof of the facility where they “used a homemade rope to scale down the side of the jail,” the sheriff said.
The six missing prisoners are: Jorge Barron (20); Gabriel Francis Coronado, 19; Manuel Allen Leon (21); Andres Nunez Rodriguez Jr., 21; Fabian Cruz Roman, 22; and Edgar Eduardo Venture, 22.
A task force has been set up to track down the refugees. No other details were immediately available.
Merced is a city of nearly 85,000 people, about 115 miles east of San Jose.
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