Man runs from ICE, jumps Santa Barbara County Jail fence

Upon his release from the Santa Barbara County Mail Jail on Friday morning, an illegal immigrant spotted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and jumped a fence into the secure jail perimeter, injuring himself.

Shortly after 8:30 a.m., a deputy noticed a vehicle blocking the entrance to sheriff’s headquarters. The occupant of the vehicle, an ICE officer, told the deputy they were attempting to apprehend a suspect who ran to the jail and jumped the fence.

Deputies found 25-year-old Jhonathan Cosme Antonio hiding between…

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