One of the three inmates who escaped from a jail in Orange County, California last week surrendered to police Friday after a week on the run. Bac Duong, 43, was taken into police custody after he told a citizen on the street that he wanted to turn himself in. Duong's accomplices, Hossein Nayeri, 37, and Jonathan Tieu, 20, are still on the run.
The news comes shortly after a 44-year-old woman who taught English at the jail was arrested on suspicion of helping the three inmates escape. Though she told police she only gave the men maps, police say they can't rule out the possibility that she also provided the tools the men used to cut into the jail's plumbing tunnels.
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