The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is looking for an inmate who allegedly walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program in Los Angeles Sunday.
The inmate, 24-year-old Jose Barrios, removed his GPS tracker and left the facility sometime before 2:30 p.m., authorities said.
“Officials immediately launched a search and conducted an emergency count of the MCRP, confirming Barrios was missing,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.
Barrios may have left the area in a white vehicle, authorities said. Barrios is described as 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 157 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black shirt and black shoes.
Barrios was serving a seven-year sentence for second-degree robbery with an enhancement for using a firearm. He was institutionalized on Sept. 27, 2023.
Anyone who sees Barrios or has information on his whereabouts is asked to call 911 or a local law enforcement agency.
“The MCRP is a voluntary program for male incarcerated persons who meet the eligibility criteria,” the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. “Approved participants serve the end of their sentences in the community, in lieu of confinement in state prison. Since 1977, 99 percent of the incarcerated people who have escaped or walked away from an adult institution, camp, in-state contract bed or Community Rehabilitative Program Placement have been apprehended.”
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