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Two of four men charged with breaking out of Waiawa Correctional Facility in June could see up to five years added to their prison terms when they are sentenced Oct. 24.
Last week Jordan White pleaded guilty to second-degree escape and George Thomas pleaded no contest to second-degree escape. They each face a maximum of five years in prison.
They will be sentenced Oct. 24 at 9 a.m. in Circuit Judge Karen Ahn’s courtroom.
White, Thomas and two other inmates got out of their housing unit at the minimum-security facility June 25, scaled two 6-foot fences and walked away from the property undetected. The escape prompted an islandwide manhunt.
Police caught White and Elijah Ke-A-Kahumoku June 27 at an apartment complex in Wahiawa. Authorities arrested Thomas and David Carvalho Jr. in the parking lot of the Pagoda Hotel the same day.
Carvalho and Ke-A-Kahumoku are scheduled to stand trial the week of Sept. 6, also before Ahn.
The inmates are now housed at the high-security Halawa Correctional Facility.
White, 20, was transferred to Waiawa Correctional Facility two years ago to complete a sentence for three felonies and would have been eligible for parole Nov. 20.
Thomas, 24, had felony convictions for promoting a dangerous drug, car theft and possession of drug paraphernalia. He would have been eligible for parole in 2013.