A seven-hour search came to an end Monday night when Alameda County sheriff's deputies detained an inmate who had escaped from the in Dublin this afternoon, a sheriff's dispatcher said.
Jose Luis Franco, 57, was found riding a bike in Dublin at around 9:30 p.m. and was taken back to jail without incident, the dispatcher said.
"He ran but he got caught," the dispatcher said.
Franco was returning from court this afternoon when he "somehow was able to breach the wall of the jail," sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said earlier today. Franco, who was in jail for burglary charges out of Oakland, was reported missing at around 2 p.m.
Police used helicopters, K-9 units and officers on motorcycles to try and locate Franco. The search was focused in the hills between Dublin and San Ramon and the surrounding area.
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Patch editors Patrick Creaven, Erika Conner and Bay City News contributed to this report.
