Boss chews prosecutor who called escapee ‘Hannibal Lecter’ saying statement “inappropriate, uninformed, and harsh”

Orange County's district attorney boss, Tony Rackauckas, rebuked the statements made by one of his lawyers, Heather Brown, when she called Hossein Nayeri, one of the escapees, diabolical and likened him to fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter. Rackauckas called the statements "inappropriate, uninformed, and harsh."

Fox News reported that the statements made by Brown on a newspaper interview were unauthorized by Rackauckas or by anyone from his office, further adding that that they do not reflect the prosecutors' position in the case.

Brown, who is one of the prosecutors pursuing the case, reacted and told the Orange County register "Oh, my God, they let Hannibal Lecter out." She called the man "diabolical" and commented further saying, "It's mind-boggling that he was housed in a dorm with such low-level security."

Hossein Nayeri is a former Marine who had escaped Iran in 2012. According to New York Post, Nayeri faces charges of kidnapping, torture, aggravated mayhem and burglary. Back in Iran, the escapee helped kidnap a marijuana dealer whom he thought buried money in the desert. His gang burned the dealer with a blowtorch, and cut off the dealer's penis. He fled the country but was caught while was on his way to Spain to visit family.

Nayeri is just one of the three men who have escaped the prison from Orange County, California five days ago. Along with him are Jonathan Tieu and Bac Duong. Mirror UK reports that Nayeri could be the mastermind behind the prison break per the commentaries made by Attorney Heather Brown that he is "sophisticated, incredibly violent, and cunning."

They cut through steel into duct work then climbed on to the prison roof, cut through a section of razor wire, then used bed linens to rappel down. While their method is not exactly original as experts have likened it to the breakout of two inmates from Clinton Correctional Facility in New York, the genius that Nayeri and the other two did was that they escaped in the middle of the heavily populated Orange County.

Authorities still have no update about the location of the escapees and have now sought the cooperation of the community where they think the escapees are embedded. 

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