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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Waiawa inmates captured after escape

By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer

Waiawa Correctional Facility warden Ted Sakai, middle, speaks to Honolulu police officer Clifford Ramson, left, along the road leading to the correctional facility where two escapees were captured.

Bruce Asato • The Honolulu Advertiser

Two men who escaped early yesterday from the minimum-security Waiawa Correctional Facility were captured just before lunchtime. James Bautista, 19, and Andrew Schwab, 24, fled between 12:30 a.m. and 12:55 a.m. by removing glass louvers from Bautista's cell, police said.

Sheriff's deputies and police found them just before 11 a.m. in the Waiawa area, said Jim Propotnick, deputy director of law enforcement for the state Department of Public Safety.

Bautista has been convicted of second-degree theft, second-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, kidnapping and third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug while Schwab's convictions were for armed robbery, auto theft and bail violation, police said.