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.
Fernando Salazar. (Courtesy of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)
He was described as a 50-year-old Hispanic male, 5 feet, 6 inches tall, 180 pounds with bald black hair, and brown eyes….