The Orange County District Attorney’s office ended their weeklong manhunt for an “extremely dangerous” convict who escaped from a Santa Ana halfway house .
Authorities arrested 20-year-old Ike Souzer in Rosarito, Mexico on Tuesday after receiving information that he may have crossed the border near the San Ysidro area.
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Souzer was sentenced to 90 days in jail and on formal probation for two years after he pled guilty to a felony vandalism charge. The judge presiding over the case gave Souzer time served, something the prosecutors strongly objected to because of Souzer’s violent criminal history.
“My prosecutors have spent years and years trying to do everything they can to keep this violent criminal behind bars, and at every turn, the very judges who are elected to protect public safety have done little to do so and instead have given him break after break after break,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said.