Woman, 37, back in custody after walking away from Southern California reentry program

A woman who walked away from a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Female Community Reentry Program (CDCR FCRP) was apprehended after three days on the lam. 

According to the CDCR, officials were alerted that Angel Rayburn had tampered with her ankle monitor and walked out of the San Diego County facility where she was housed on Aug. 26 around 9 p.m.

An emergency count confirmed that Rayburn was missing, and both CDCR’s Office of Correctional Safety and local law enforcement agencies were immediately notified.

She was eventually located in Perris on Friday evening around 6:30 p.m. and taken into custody without incident, authorities said late Friday night.

Rayburn, 37, had initially been transferred to the San Diego County facility on Aug. 14.

She was received from Riverside County on Mar. 5, 2025, to serve a three-year sentence for evading a peace officer while driving the wrong way, assault with any means likely to produce great bodily injury to a peace officer/firefighter and buying/receiving a stolen vehicle/trailer/construction equipment. 

Female Community Reentry Programs allow eligible offenders committed to state prison to serve the end of their sentences in the re-entry center and provides them with the programs and tools necessary to transition from custody to the community, CDCR says. It is a voluntary program for female offenders who have two years of less left to serve.