SANTA ANA -- Sheriff's officials today appealed for public help in their search for three "very dangerous" detainees who escaped from the Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana roughly 16 hours before they discovered missing.
The men cut through a steel grate, half-inch steel bars and plumbing tunnels early Friday before making their way to an unsecured part of the jail's roof and using makeshift ropes to rappel several floors to the ground.