A search is underway for an\u00a0incarcerated man who fled from the Male Community Reentry Program in San Diego on Thursday afternoon, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials.<\/p>\n
Authorities described 70-year-old Randy Seitzinger as 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 191 pounds. Seitzinger has a light complexion and was last seen wearing blue jeans and a light-colored short-sleeved shirt, according to CDCR. <\/p>\n
Anyone who sees him or knows his whereabouts is asked to contact any law enforcement agency, call 911 or contact the Office of Correctional Safety staff by calling\u00a0760-550-8782.<\/p>\n
Staff received a tamper alert around 3:50 p.m., meaning that Seitzinger had removed his GPS device while on an approved community medical pass.<\/p>\n
CDCR\u2019s Office of Correctional Safety and local law enforcement have been notified and are assisting in the search.<\/p>\n
Seitzinger\u00a0came to the San Diego program from Orange County on May 22, 2019. He had been sentenced to 15 years for second-degree robbery and false imprisonment with violence.<\/p>\n
What is the Male Community Reentry Program? It is a voluntary program for eligible male incarcerated persons, according to CDCR. <\/p>\n
Approved participants serve the end of their sentences in the community in lieu of confinement in state prison.<\/p>\n
The department says that since 1977, 99% of the incarcerated people who have escaped or walked away from an adult institution, camp, in-state contract bed, or community rehabilitative program placement have been apprehended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search is underway for an\u00a0incarcerated man who fled from the Male Community Reentry Program in San Diego…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-384642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384642","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=384642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}