Police searching for inmate who walked away from Southern California jail facility

Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as well as local law enforcement, are searching for a 22-year-old inmate who walked away from a community reentry program facility in Los Angeles Tuesday.  

Authorities said an emergency prisoner count called at around 2:20 p.m. Tuesday confirmed that Samaki M. Tywman was missing after officials were alerted that he had tampered with his ankle monitor.  

The 22-year-old is described 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing approximately 179 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, black sweatpants and black tennis shoes, a CDCR news release detailed.  

The release also stated that Tywman was serving a five-year sentence for “discharging a firearm in an inhabited dwelling/vehicle/aircraft and second-degree robbery.”  

He entered CDCR’s Male Community Reentry Program, which allows eligible offenders in state prison to serve the end of their sentences at the reentry center where they are provided with programs to help transition back into the community, on Aug. 6, 2024.  

“Since 1977, 99 percent of the incarcerated people who have escaped or walked away from an adult male institution camp, in-state contract bed or Community Rehabilitative Program Placement have been apprehended,” officials added.  

Anyone who sees Tywman or has knowledge of his whereabouts is urged to call 911 or contact Special Agent Abraham Villasenor at 760-936-1851.