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Associated Press

A tip from an observant citizen has led San Francisco police to catch two escaped prisoners who had been on the run for more than a week.
San Francisco police were responding at about 8.50am on Saturday to an unrelated call when a man said he saw a parked white van that looked like the one authorities said the fugitives had stolen, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said.
As officers approached the van, 37-year-old Hossein Nayeri started running. He was caught after a short chase.
Officers then went back to the van and found 20-year-old Jonathan Tieu hiding inside, the sheriff said.
Police found ammunition but no guns in the van.
Authorities had been hunting for Tieu, Nayeri and a third inmate, 43-year-old Bac Duong, in southern California since they pulled off a brazen jail escape on January 22.

The men were arrested near Golden Gate park, an area popular with both tourists and the homeless.
The man who provided the tip, Vergel Dalusung, said he saw three police cars surrounding a white van that was parked across the street from a McDonald’s restaurant, just outside a Whole Foods Market. He only saw police handcuff one man and put him in a patrol car, and it happened very quickly, he said.
“And that’s when I stopped looking cause I figured it was all taken care of,” Dalusung said.
On Friday, Duong walked into an auto repair shop and said he wanted to surrender.
He told investigators he had last seen the other two inmates on Thursday afternoon in San Jose, shifting the manhunt 643 kilometres to the north.
The three men had all been jailed and were awaiting trial on charges related to separate violent crimes. They were held in a dormitory with about 65 other men in the Central Men’s Jail, southeast of Los Angeles.
The men escaped in the early morning hours after cutting a hole in a metal grate then crawling through plumbing tunnels and onto the roof of a four-storey building.
They pushed aside barbed wire and climbed down using a rope made of bed linen.
It took jail staff 16 hours to realise the three men were missing.
On Thursday, authorities arrested a woman who taught English inside the jail. Nooshafarin Ravaghi, 44, gave Nayeri a paper copy of a Google Earth map that showed an aerial view of the entire jail compound, according to the sheriff’s spokesman Lieutenant Jeff Hallock.
She was booked on suspicion of being an accessory to a felony and was being held pending a court appearance set for Monday.
Ravaghi and Nayeri also exchanged “personal and close” handwritten letters, but Hallock could not say whether the two were romantically involved.
Duong, a native of Vietnam, has been held since last month on charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
It was the first escape in nearly three decades from the jail, built in 1968, that holds 900 men.
Tieu is charged with murder and attempted murder in a 2011 gang shooting. Nayeri had been held without bond since September 2014 on charges of kidnapping, torture, aggravated mayhem and burglary.


Caught on the run: Man tipped police to jail escapees’ stolen van in San Francisco  parking lot

This Internet 'wanted' poster provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Office, updated Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, shows that they have captured one of three violent inmates who last week broke out of their Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif. Bac Duong, 43, surrendered in Santa Ana earlier Friday and told investigators he had been with the other two fugitives, 20-year-old Jonathan Tieu and 37-year-old Hossein Nayeri, in San Jose, Calif on Thursday, according to sheriff's Lt. Jeff Hallock.(Orange County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Orange County sheriff's deputies investigate early Saturday morning, Jan. 23, 2016, after three jail inmates charged with violent crimes escaped from Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif. The men include 20-year-old Jonathan Tieu, who is charged with murder; 37-year-old Hossein Nayeri, charged with kidnapping and torture; and 43-year-old Bac Duong, charged with attempted murder. Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Hallock said Saturday that the inmates were last seen at 5 a.m. Friday morning and could have escaped anytime between then and late Friday night. (AP Photo/Kevin Warn)

This banner atop the Orange County Sheriff's Department webpage shows the latest iteration of their Internet "wanted" poster, showing that all three escaped inmates are in custody as of Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016. After a week of SWAT raids and a gang dragnet, it was a tip that led San Francisco police to the two remaining fugitives who broke out of a Santa Ana, Calif., jail. A third surrendered Friday. (Orange County Sheriff's Department via AP)

This 'wanted' poster provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Office shows that they have captured one of three violent inmates who broke out of a high security jail. The other two escapees were caught on Saturday after an intense manhunt. Photo: AP

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