{"id":218689,"date":"2026-03-13T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218689\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:03:09","slug":"teen-convicted-of-murder-in-orange-county-taken-into-custody-after-fleeing-academic-furlough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218689\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen convicted of murder in Orange County taken into custody after fleeing academic furlough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7.com staff  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, March 13, 2026 9:21PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC7 Eyewitness News\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A convicted teen murderer who was on the run for two days after cutting off his tracking monitor was taken into custody Thursday night, Anaheim police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jose Angel Aguilar, 22, was on a court-ordered academic furlough at Santiago Canyon College on Tuesday when he cut off his GPS device and left the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Aguilar was serving time at an Orange County probation juvenile facility for a murder he committed in 2021, the OC Probation Department said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/18711442_031326-furlough-escapee-tn.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Orange County Probation Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In February, Aguilar was granted weekly academic leave so he could attend college classes. However, the probation department asked on March 6 that Aguilar&#8217;s furloughs be vacated due to &#8220;violations.&#8221; The probation department said his furloughs were not vacated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Thursday night, Anaheim SWAT found Aguilar in a motel room and took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7.com staff Friday, March 13, 2026 9:21PM A convicted teen murderer who was on the run for two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[100182,163,165,164],"class_list":["post-218689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-100182","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}