Authorities Tuesday were seeking the whereabouts of a 28-year-old man who walked away from a halfway house in Los Angeles less than four months before he was due to be paroled for a burglary conviction.
Janathen Sufle left the Male Community Re-entry Program facility on South Grand Avenue on Saturday, according to Krissi Khokhobashvili of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Staff learned of his absence after being informed that his GPS monitoring device had been tampered with, Khokhobashvili said.
That typically means an inmate has cut off an ankle monitor, she said.
“He blew it,” Khokhobashvili said while noting that upon being apprehended, Sufle will be returned to prison and will face additional penalties for walking away from the re-entry program for men with less than 120 of their sentences remaining.
Sufle, who was serving a three-year sentence, is Native American, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs about 142 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts was urged to call 911 or their local law enforcement agency.
— City News Service