Convict Who Walked Away From San Diego Reentry Program Captured In Carlsbad

CARLSBAD, CA — A convict who walked away from a San Diego halfway house last week was captured Tuesday in Carlsbad, authorities said.

State park rangers took Justin M. Dake, 29, into custody without incident at Carlsbad State Beach around 10:30 a.m., according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Dake was taken and booked into Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. His case will be referred to the San Diego County District Attorney's Office for consideration of escape charges, the CDCR said.

Dake walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program facility on June 10 in San Diego, according to the CDCR.

Dake was sentenced in May 2017 in Orange County to five years for attempted second-degree murder, with enhancements for personal use of a dangerous or deadly weapon and inflicting great bodily injury, according to the CDCR. While incarcerated, he was also sentenced in Kern County to seven more years for assault by prisoner with force likely to produce great bodily injury, with an enhancement for inflicting great bodily injury, an in-prison offense, as a second striker.

The MCRP program allows eligible offenders to serve the end of their sentences in a community-based center.