Woman who escaped San Diego reentry facility arrested

SAN DIEGO – An incarcerated girl who walked away from a San Diego reentry facility this week was arrested late Thursday in San Bernardino County, state corrections officers stated.

Heather Gutierrez, 21, was apprehended about 10:30 p.m., a bit of greater than a day after officers observed she’d left the 82-bed Custody to Group Transitional Reentry Program, or CCTRP, facility at 3050 Armstrong St., a launch from the state’s Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation reveals. This system permits eligible girls convicted of crimes to serve their time in a CCTRP facility moderately than in jail with providers provided for substance abuse restoration, employment and social help.

Gutierrez was sentenced to state jail final September in San Bernardino County on a second-degree theft cost, officers stated. She was attributable to be launched from custody in July.

Gutierrez now has been transported to the California Establishment for Girls in Chino, the discharge reveals.

She’s now ineligible for the CCTRP program for not less than 10 years and officers say she might face further costs for escaping custody.

No additional particulars about her arrest have been supplied.