The State - News from Dec. 5, 1988
FBI agents in Denver arrested two of the four inmates who escaped from the Orange County Jail in Santa Ana on Nov. 20. Robbery-kidnaping suspect Steven Wilson and burglary suspect Richard Fluharty, both 26, were taken into custody without incident, said Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Dick Olson. The two still had a car stolen in Santa Ana on the night of their escape, Olson said. A third escapee, suspected murderer Eleazar Gonzales, 20, turned himself in to Santa Ana police on Thanksgiving evening in the company of his family. The fourth man, robbery suspect Anthony Michael Gianetti, remains at large, Olson said. The four men cut a hole in a chain link fence surrounding a fifth-story rooftop recreation area and used a makeshift rope of knotted bed sheets to rappel to the ground.
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