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Santos Fonseca, left, and Jonathan Salazar (Monterey County Sheriff's Office)
Santos Fonseca, left, and Jonathan Salazar (Monterey County Sheriff's Office)
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The Associated Press
November 3, 2019 - 12:16 pm
 

MONTEREY, Calif. — Authorities say two murder suspects have escaped from central California’s Monterey County Jail.

The county sheriff’s office says in a tweet that the inmates escaped Sunday morning.

The tweet says Santos Fonseca and Jonathan Salazar were in custody on suspicion of murder and other violent charges.

A call seeking additional details from sheriff’s officials wasn’t immediately returned.

Monterey is a city of about 28,000 people on California’s central coast, 100 miles south of San Francisco.

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