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2nd California fugitive inmate recaptured

2nd California fugitive inmate recaptured
Posted at 12:34 AM, Dec 01, 2016
and last updated 2016-12-01 00:41:46-05
A second fugitive inmate who last week escaped from a county jail in California by rappelling down with a bedsheet has been re-arrested after a standoff with police that lasted more than seven hours.
 
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department says Rogelio Chavez was recaptured Wednesday night at a house in San Jose.
 
A SWAT team shot tear gas canisters into the home at least twice earlier in the day.
 
Video of the scene showed a man in handcuffs being led out of the house by at least six officers.
 
Late Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals Service and police in Antioch arrested 26-year-old Laron Campbell.
 
Chavez and Campbell escaped with two other prisoners last week by cutting through the bars covering a second-story window and then rappelling to the ground on a bedsheet rope. The others were quickly apprehended.