Inmate Escapes from Custody near Stateville

[colorblind]

Breaking news on the TV..and inmate has escaped from custody on the way back to Stateville from a court appearance and is loose around the Lockport area. watch your 5 PM news for updates. I haven't heard of this happening in a while...a part of me wishes him luck! But that's just me...

[Dazzler]

Cesar Sanchez is his name...he's 37.  The van was moving at the time...why wasn't he shackled to the van?  They say he was handcuffed and in a yellow jumpsuit.

[Dazzler]

What a clown...he was in Stateville R and C going to court in Bridgeview...all minor charges....now he can add another five years at least to his sentence....

[Crowe29]

Something like this doesn't happen every day. Don't the CO's have guns? Not like I'd condone shooting anyone, inmate or not. But still. Wow! I'mma go turn the news on now.

[Dazzler]

It's actually a tan jumpsuit he is in.  My inmate was transported by the CO's from Stateville to court once and they took off his handcuffs and bought him food.  They weren't supposed to do this...but apparently it's still going on....they are going to be in Internal Affairs for a long time....LOL.

[Dazzler]

I'm almost willing to bet that this was preplanned and there was a car in the vicinity to run to the border......or he is just goofy....there's nothing around that area...

[Dazzler]

Some facilities have gone on lockdown....this is so the tactical units from other prisons can get to Joliet to aid in the search....this happens during escapes....so don't get too excited about it....they don't have enough security with their units away so they go on lockdown.

[Dazzler]

They are using dogs in the search and infrared equipped helicopters...they said the scene is full of personnel...around 159th st. and I 355.

[Crowe29]

I just checked IDOC for my B's facility...IRCC...that one's NOT on LD...Sville def is. I was starting to panic bc I have a visit tomorrow and Sunday.

[Dazzler]

 

RUN CESAR RUN

[chadsangel4]

Thanks Dazzler, I needed that laugh!  How long do you guys think Stateville will be on LD from this?

[Crowe29]

       

[chantygirl]

Oh that's just too funny.. I couldn't help it.. i thought the same thing, Dazz.. then I saw you post it and literally laughed out loud!! Maybe he wanted to buy christmas presents for the family before going back to Statesville 

[Dazzler]

I'm afraid he's going to Pontiac or Tamms after that stunt....he escaped about 2:15 so he's got a good head start....

I don't know how long Stateville might be on lockdown...they have to use their personnel to tract this guy....so it doesn't leave a lot of security at the prison....

[Dazzler]

I don't want to be spreading any rumors, but I heard this is the IDOC's newest early release program....lose them one at a time.....

[chantygirl]

haha! They can lose C all they want, as long as they let me know when they're gonna lose him.  I'll meet em there!

[chadsangel4]

    You are on a roll tonight Dazz!

[pomkinf]

Breaking news on the TV..and inmate has escaped from custody on the way back to Stateville from a court appearance and is loose around the Lockport area. watch your 5 PM news for updates. I haven't heard of this happening in a while...a part of me wishes him luck! But that's just me...

I totally was thinking the same thing!

[me]

 

you guys are cracking me up!!

[Angela]

RUN CESAR RUN

As soon as I started reading this I started laughing and it took me awhile to stop.
 Too......Funny........ Dazz.........

Some people just don't have any common sense.   

[eb2008]

  HILARIOUS

[mserer]

Tribune Breaking News says he has been captured - they didn't have any details.  Does this mean the lockdown will be lifted?

[Dazzler]

Yes, probably....

[me]

Chanel 9 WGN had the capture live.  They said he was hiding in a port a potty........................................................ 

[Sizz]

   
                                  OMG Tooo funny!!

[reallove16]

Here hes going to be living in a bathroom for a very loong time and they find him hiding in one. LOL too funny

[chase]

Oh my goodness....way too funny!   

[jdmlt]

I can't imagine what happened to him during court that made him try to escape, while in a moving car. I also can't imagine (hopefully, his family isn't on IPT) how his family feels knowing he did this.

[LovinDB]

A friend of mine posted it on fb.. a picture of the guy and the news about him just as they were saying it on the news!! My l/o is in Sheridan Im guessing it being close and near stateville that is why I didnt get a call tonight.... Does anyone know which prisions are on lockdown??

[mikenlisa]

My thoughts exactly..I hope his family isn't on here reading some of these statements.  My thoughts and prayers go out to his family members.  I know they say desperate situations call for desperate measures but I definitely feel bad for all personally involved.

[Crowe29]

I don't want to be spreading any rumors, but I heard this is the IDOC's newest early release program....lose them one at a time.....

 

haha! They can lose C all they want, as long as they let me know when they're gonna lose him.  I'll meet em there!

  I'd go looking out into a cornfield for my B if I had to...that's all they have out there by him, hahaha!

[Dazzler]

I see Mr. Sanchez has been relocated to Pontiac CC.  His IDOC sheet still has his old picture....I supposed they don't want the black eyes and facial lacerations to show up for the public to see...LOL.  You have to know that guy got worked over.....

[me]

I see Mr. Sanchez has been relocated to Pontiac CC.  His IDOC sheet still has his old picture....I supposed they don't want the black eyes and facial lacerations to show up for the public to see....  You have to know that guy got worked over.....

you know that's right!!   

[veracity]

Here's a video where they showed what was done to an escaped murderer in Rhode Island.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0CasxnKHoE

[eb2008]

I surely say it serves his dumb a** right, doing STUPID stuff, like escaping only causes more problems for him& everyone around him duh

[Angela]

I can actually say that I am speechless.... I just watched the Video and wished that I didn't.   

My thoughts were thinking what had to be going on in the mothers mind when she saw her Baby. I thought seeing my sons head shaved once he got into BC was bad, but Oh my Goodness. Terrible thing won't ever watch that again!

[Forevermah]

Well, his new picture is up and he is in SEG at Pontiac.  He did make a very dumb move, for which he will pay with at least another 5 years, added on, time will tell how much more. 

[Skully]

I have been reluctant to post on this out of fear one of his loved ones may need help on here and see these lol I just kept thinking omg what if that was my loved one... Cause you know Pontiac is giving him hell... And people can watch it! I would be so mortified!!! I was reading one article that quoted someone as saying "He was in the doo-doo." I almost DIED! And hey... If one of his loved ones read this just know we do welcome you here and this is a really good site and you can find a lot of help here!

[mikenlisa]

well said skully...my thoughts exactly!!!

[Forevermah]

If his family is on IPT, they are probably saying the same thing, he made a big mistake and probably would like to give him a good kick in the butt... I know if it were my LO, I would like to choke him!

His LO's are always welcome on IPT for their support! 

He is in SEG at Pontiac and I am really surprised he was not shipped to Tamms!

[jdmlt]

I'm thinking it was Pontiac if he still has more court dates.  The guy from E. Moline, escape, was sent to Tamms.

[Crowe29]

My sister and I were having this conversation on our way out to see my B this past weekend and I immediately said Tamms, that makes sense since he's an obvious flight risk. And this was right when we were passing Pontiac too, haha!

[TimeStandsStill]

Surveillance video of escaped prisoner released

December 6, 2011 (CHICAGO) -- Surveillance video has been released of the escaped inmate who led police on a manhunt last Friday.

Cesar Sanchez escaped around 2 p.m. while being transported from a suburban court to a prison in Joliet.

The search moved from the Lockport area to Rockdale a few hours later after a local business alerted police that the suspect was seen climbing off a delivery truck.

After six and a half hours, Sanchez was found hiding in a storage area for portable toilets in Rockdale. So far he has not been charged in the escape.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8457399

[me]

CHICAGO (CBS) —
A man who made headlines in December for briefly escaping authorities has now died in federal custody.


Juan Sanchez, also known as Cesar Sanchez, died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center downtown early Wednesday. He was officially pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center at 12:08 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Sanchez, 39, and Carlos Ochoa, 48, were charged in December with conspiracy to commit interstate robbery, robbery and using a firearm during a crime of violence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Sanchez was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The men were arrested in November 2010 and charged in a separate Cook County Criminal Court case.

Before his arrest, police spotted Sanchez driving a car at 3160 S. Ashland Ave. on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 2010, but he allegedly tried to run them over when they tried to arrest him. Sanchez exchanged gunfire with police and fled, police said.

After a chase, Sanchez allegedly pointed a gun at officers, who fired back and struck him. He was treated at an area hospital and arrested.

Sanchez, of the 4500 block of South Paulina Street, and Ochoa, of the 7700 block of South Spaulding Avenue, were both ordered held without bond on the state charges.

According to the federal indictment, Sanchez and Ochoa conspired to and committed armed robberies at groceries, cell phone stores and at least one flower shop in Chicago and Aurora. They recently pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

Juan Sanchez, then going under the alias of Cesar Sanchez, made headlines again recently when he escaped from a moving Illinois Department of Corrections transport van near southwest suburban Lockport on Dec. 2.

He was being held at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crestwood on burglary and drug charges, and was being taken to a court appearance in Bridgeview when he escaped.

He was found about six hours later, still in handcuffs, hiding in a port-a-potty, , on a property filled with 300 of them, near the Waste Management site in Rockdale, near Joliet. Sanchez was found by a combination of police dogs on the ground and infrared technology on a helicopter flying overhead, Illinois State Police said.

Sanchez had been hiding under the portable toilet’s lid, Will County Sheriff Paul Kaupas told reporters.

“He was in the doo-doo,” Kaupas said last month.

An autopsy on Sanchez was scheduled for Thursday, the medical examiner’s office said.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/01/12/inmate-who-escaped-hid-in-port-a-potty-dies-in-custody/

[eb2008]

So is there any speculations about his death?

[chantygirl]

Maybe I'm of suspicious mind, but, that just doesn't sound right to me.  He was obviously healthy when he ran.

[Crowe29]

Oh wow! How can u just die suddenly, like that, in a cell? Unless he was murdered...or hanged himself? Or maybe he ingested some of thast port-o-potty doo doo and was poisoned. Well, we'll just have to wait on the 6 o'clock news for this one!

[Angela]

Regardless of how he passed it's unfortunate. May God be with him and the Family!        

[Skully]

I was thinking he might have caught something from being in the feces... And well... You know how medical care is in IDOC... But I will wait for the autopsy results

[Forevermah]

I was thinking he might have caught something from being in the feces... And well... You know how medical care is in IDOC... But I will wait for the autopsy results

He wasn't in IDOC, he was in the federal lockup downtown.

I have to agree, if the reason he passed is ever released, so be it.  I feel bad for his family to have to go through this on top of everything else they did in December when he originally escaped and no one knows if he was healthy then either.  Time will tell what information comes out, until then anything is just rumor!

[Amanda.Marks]

Regardless of what he did in his past, or how he died. It's very sad that he has passed. My heart goes out to his family.

[TimeStandsStill]

Man who escaped on way to court dies in federal custody
BY BRIAN STANLEY
January 12, 2012 7:53PM
Updated: January 13, 2012 2:14AM



CHICAGO — A prisoner who escaped in Lockport and made his way to Rockdale before being recaptured last month has died in federal custody.

Cesar Sanchez, 37, alias Juan Sanchez, was pronounced dead at 12:08 a.m. Wednesday at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, the Cook County Medical Examiner reporter. An autopsy performed Thursday showed further study will be needed to determine the cause of his death, but it does not appear to be the result of foul play.
Sanchez arrived last week at the Metropolitan Correctional Center after being transferred from Stateville Correctional Center into federal custody.

On Dec. 2, Sanchez was returning from a court appearance in Bridgeview when he jumped from a transport van at Farrell Road and 159th Street in Lockport.

Sanchez was serving a seven-year-sentence for burglary and had also done time for theft, robbery, aggravated battery and narcotics possession.

Citing security concerns, a Department of Corrections spokeswoman declined to provide details of how the prisoner got out of the van. When police found Sanchez that night, he was wearing handcuffs, but his legs were not shackled.

After his escape, Sanchez made his way to the nearby Jewel-Osco and climbed behind the wind deflector of a Berryman Transfer semi driven by Tony Miller. When Miller arrived at the truckyard in Rockdale, he saw Sanchez jumped down and run towards the road. When he learned police were searching for the escaped convict, Miller had the company contact police.

Canines and helicopters using infrared cameras tracked Sanchez to a row of portable toilets at the Waste Management site next to Berryman.

About six hours after his escape, Sanchez was found hiding in the holding tank below the floor of a portable toilet.

While Sanchez was waiting to be charged for his escape, he was indicted a few days later by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to commit interstate robbery, robbery and using a firearm during a crime of violence. The grand jury indicted Carlos Ochoa, 48, on the same charges.

Before being arrested in November 2010, Sanchez and Ochoa committed armed robberies at grocery stores, cell phone stores and a flower shop in Chicago and Aurora, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

http://heraldnews.suntimes.com/9977117-417/man-who-escaped-on-way-to-court-dies-in-federal-custody.html