An “extremely dangerous and violent criminal” who has escaped from custody multiple times has been captured again in Mexico, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
Ike Nicholas Souzer, 20,
escaped from a halfway house in Santa Ana
last week, where he had been transported after a release from jail on probation.
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Souzer’s criminal history includes the killing of his own mother, attacking correctional officers and two prior escapes from custody.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, working with Mexican officials caught Souzer in Rosarito on Wednesday after receiving information from OCDA investigators.
Souzer had been brought to the halfway house after serving a 90-day sentence for vandalism after he was caught spray-painting a freeway underpass.
But the DA’s office says it has fought repeatedly for harsher sentences over the years for Souzer’s multiple offenses given his criminal history.
At age 13, Souzer fatally stabbed his own mother and was later convicted of voluntary manslaughter. While on trial for that case, he escaped from juvenile hall in 2019, but was arrested the next day at a McDonald’s in Anaheim.