LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Jawan Richard Harris, who had walked away from a Los Angeles Male Community Reentry Program on Oct. 4 was apprehended today in Las Vegas.
Harris was taken into custody at 2:50 p.m. by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Las Vegas Metropolitan Fugitive Task Force in cooperation with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He was transported to Clark County Jail where he will await extradition back to California to face escape charges.
Harris, 26, was sentenced to CDCR from Los Angeles County on Aug. 9, 2019, to serve an eight-year sentence for burglary in the first degree as a second striker.
Harris arrived at the MCRP on December 28, 2021, and was scheduled to be released from CDCR custody in Oct. 2023.
