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Two Los Angeles County jail maximum security inmates were captured on Wednesday after escaping from the Castaic jail, where they were being held for several armed robberies.  Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies said Winder Barrios and Jose Aldana were taken into custody without incident about a half a mile from the jail.

They had been reportedly missing for about 14 hours from the North County Correctional Facility.  Residents reported there were two men asking people to give them clothes.  Barrios and Aldana were found in a storage container nearby.

Both men were working on a jail loading dock around 1 a.m., in which they had access to delivery trucks, when they reportedly fled.  Barrios and Aldana were reported missing around 3:15 a.m. when the correctional facility did a head count.

Barrios and Aldana are both illegal immigrants and there will be an investigation into the escape as well as trying to determine what role the federal government could have played when checking the men’s immigration status.  Also being investigated is why these men were given trust positions within the correctional facility in the first place.

Barrios and Aldana, reportedly from Van Nuys, escaped after they were identified by three witnesses as the ones who were responsible for a series of robberies in Hollywood and San Fernando Valley. 

Both men were previously being held on $4 million bail and are now held in a “No Bail” status. They are due in court today.