Inmate Escapes from Custody near Stateville

[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.

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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