A convicted burglar walked away Tuesday evening from a Male Community Reentry Program facility in Los Angeles.
About 7:50 p.m., officials determined Jones Booker had left without authorization and agents from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of Correctional Safety were dispatched to locate and apprehend Booker.
Booker is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 162 pounds with dark hair and dark-colored eyes and tattoos near his eyes and mouth and on his neck.
Booker was received by CDCR from Los Angeles County on Oct. 20, 2019, while serving a 32-month sentence for first-degree burglary. He was transferred to the MCRP on Nov. 24 and was scheduled to be released in February 2022.
The Male Community Reentry Program allows eligible offenders committed to state prison to serve the end of their sentences in the reentry center and provides them with programs and tools necessary to transition from custody to freedom.
It is a voluntary program for male offenders who have about one year left to serve. The program links offenders to a range of community-based rehabilitative services that assist with substance use disorders, mental health care, medical care, employment, education, housing, family reunification and social support.
Anyone seeing Booker or with any knowledge of his whereabouts should immediately contact law enforcement or call 911.
Since 1977, 99% of all offenders who have left an adult institution, camp, or community-based program without permission have been apprehended, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.