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Upgraded on: March 29, 2024/ 12:33 PM EDT/ CBS/AP
Convicted killer Ike Souzer detained at Anaheim park Sunday early morning 02:38
A Southern California male founded guilty of eliminating his mom as a teen was recorded in Mexico a week after he left a midway home, breaking the conditions of his probation, authorities stated.
Ike Nicholas Souzer, 20, was apprehended Wednesday in the seaside city of Rosarito by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican authorities after a weeklong manhunt, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office stated. He is when again in custody in Orange County.
In a press release, the district lawyer’s workplace explained Souzer as an “exceptionally harmful and violent crook.”
Souzer had actually currently served his sentence for stabbing his mom to death in 2017, when he was 13. He was consequently founded guilty on a vandalism charge and served a brief sentence, then launched from custody March 20, district attorneys stated.
The judge because case likewise sentenced Souzer to 2 years of probation.
Ike Nicholas Souzer. Orange County District Attorney’s Office
This was the 2nd time Souzer vanished from a midway home. In 2022, he was discharge of prison and relocated to a midway home in Santa Ana where he eliminated his electronic display and left. He was later on caught by authorities. In his current escape, Souzer once again cut off his electronic tracking gadget, CBS Los Angeles reported.
He likewise got away a juvenile detention center in 2019.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer stated Souzer should have harsher sentences and blamed judges who have actually managed his cases.
“This is not somebody who should have a break; he has actually turned every chance to turn over a brand-new leaf into a brand-new chance to break the law and defy police. He did not merely leave and forget to sign in with his probation officer,” Spitzer stated in the news release. “The 2nd he ran out custody he set a strategy in movement to run away to a foreign nation in yet another effort to get away the effects of his actions.”
Souzer was founded guilty of voluntary murder in the death of his mom. His defense lawyer argued that the killing remained in self-defense and stated the teenager had actually experienced years of abuse, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Souzer has actually likewise been charged with 3 attacks on correctional officers, having a shank in prison, and most just recently, drawing graffiti on a highway underpass, district attorneys stated.
- In:
- Mexico
- Southern California
- California
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Orange County
- Criminal offense
