1 Woman Arrested, Another At Large After Escaping Reentry Program

SAN DIEGO, CA — Authorities have captured one of the two women who walked away from a reentry program over the weekend in San Diego.

Janelle Rice, 32, and Diana Sanchez, 31, were seen leaving the Custody to Community Transitional Reentry Program facility around 10 p.m. Saturday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Shortly after, officials received tamper alerts for their ankle monitors.

"Staff immediately initiated an emergency count, confirming Sanchez and Rice were missing," the agency said. "Within minutes, agents from CDCR's Office of Correctional Safety were directed to locate and apprehend Sanchez and Rice and notification was made to local law enforcement."

Rice, who was serving a four-year sentence for robbery and burglary, was arrested without incident at about 8:45 a.m. Monday in the city of Stanton in northern Orange County, according to the CDCR. She was taken to the California Institution of Women in Chino.

Her case will be referred to the San Diego County District Attorney for consideration of escape charges, according to the CDCR.

Sanchez, who was serving a five-year sentence for burglary and the use of ID of another to obtain personal identifying information, remained at large as of Monday morning. She was described as 5-foot-7 and 230 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair.

Both had been housed at a Custody to Community Transitional Reentry Program facility on Armstrong Street in San Diego. The program allows eligible female inmates to serve their sentence in the community at a rentry program facility instead of in prison.