Deputies Search for Inmate Who Escaped Pico Rivera Station

Members of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department drive in Malibu, Calif., on Sept. 23, 2021. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

PICO RIVERA, Calif.—An inmate escaped from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Pico Rivera station Feb. 13 and unsuccessfully tried to steal a vehicle, but eluded an initial search.

According to the sheriff’s department, Fernando Salazar was an inmate worker at the Pico Rivera station, and he walked away wearing a blue inside-out LA County Jail jacket and white boxers at about 4:50 a.m. He was last seen near the San Gabriel riverbed off Washington Boulevard in an unincorporated area near Whittier.