Alhambra burglar sentenced for jail escape

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LOS ANGELES >> A man who escaped from Los Angeles County jail in March after being sentenced for swiping computers from a San Gabriel Valley hospital chain received a new sentence Friday for the jail break, officials said.
Christopher Lee Brown, a 37-year-old transient, was sentenced to eight months in jail Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s officials said in a written statement.
The sentence will be added to four years and eight months in jail for a mid-October, 2013, burglary at an AHMC Healthcare Inc. facility in Alhambra, officials said.
“Brown will serve the entire 64-month sentence in state prison, rather than county jail,” according to the district attorney’s office statement.
In the burglary, two laptop computers containing personal information of as many as 729,000 patients were stolen. The theft prompted a security concerns and worries over potential identity theft, though no such incident have been reported in connection with the stolen computers. They were never recovered.
Brown was sentenced to jail March 12 after being convicted of two counts of burglary and one count of receiving stolen property.
But upon being transported back to the Inmate Reception Center for processing, Brown impersonated another inmate and managed to walk away, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said.
He remained a fugitive for three weeks until he was spotted and recaptured April 2 in Santa Monica.

PHOTOS of Christopher Lee Brown Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

 

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