{"id":389099,"date":"2026-07-07T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389099\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:07:12","slug":"man-who-walked-away-from-california-conservation-camp-arrested-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389099\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who walked away from California conservation camp arrested in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. \u2014 A man who walked away from a Northern California conservation camp over the Fourth of July weekend has been apprehended in Mexico, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>CDCR officials said 49-year-old Miguel Banuelos walked away from Washington Ridge Conservation Camp in Nevada County on July 4.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Mexican authorities located and arrested Banuelos without incident at a residence in Tijuana around 11:20 a.m. Monday after receiving information from CDCR&#8217;s Office of Correctional Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Banuelos is expected to appear before an immigration judge before being processed through a port of entry and returned to California. CDCR said he will be housed at a state prison, and his case will be referred to the Nevada County District Attorney&#8217;s Office for possible escape charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to CDCR, Banuelos was received from San Diego County on July 23, 2025. He is serving a seven-year prison sentence for transportation or sale of a controlled substance and possession or purchase of more than four kilograms of heroin or cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>His scheduled release date was April 20, 2028.<\/p>\n<p>CDCR said that since 1977, 99% of people who have escaped or walked away from an adult institution, conservation camp, in-state contract bed or community-based program have been apprehended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. \u2014 A man who walked away from a Northern California conservation camp over the Fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-389099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389099","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=389099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}