Inmate arrested after walking away from reentry program in LA County

LOS ANGELES - California authorities have arrested an inmate who walked away from a reentry program in Los Angeles County over a week ago.

Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said 25-year-old inmate Aleisha Schmitz was seen going into a gray or silver Mercedes outside the Custody to Community Transitional Reentry Program (CCTRP) around 7:10 p.m. 

Authorities received an alert on her monitoring device and agents were sent to locate Schmitz. Local law enforcement was also notified of her disappearance. 

Schmitz was taken into custody without incident around 5:35 p.m. Saturday in North Hills, authorities said. 

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Schmitz was sentenced to three years for second-degree robbery and for a hit-and-run that left another person injured.