THE Superior Court has handed a three-year jail term sentence to Jessie James Camacho for escaping from prison on Easter Sunday in 2000.
Associate Judge David A. Wiseman ordered Camacho to serve two of the three years in jail consecutive to the sentence he is serving for a previous murder case.
The one year, Wiseman said, will run concurrently with Camacho’s sentence in the murder case.
It means that the defendant will spend two more years in jail in addition to the 45-year sentence he is serving.
During a bench trial last week, Wiseman found Camacho’s guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Assistant Attorney General Aaron Romano prosecuted the case. Attorney Antonio Atalig represented the defendant.
Court and police records showed that in April 2000 Camacho, Kurt M. Taisacan and another inmate escaped from prison.
Camacho and Taisacan showed up at the Department of Public Safety after a few days to surrender. The third inmate was arrested by pursuing police officers.
It was reported that the escapees broke the padlock of the jail facility and climbed the perimeter fence.
Camacho was sentenced in 1999 to 45 years imprisonment for the murder of a boy in Dandan.
