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Hawaii County police recaptured Tuesday night in Kona one of two inmates who escaped in the past week from the Hale Nani transitional facility, the state Department of Public Safety reported.
Joshua Kalili is charged with second-degree escape. He left the Panaewa reintegration program Sunday afternoon, a Public Safety spokeswoman said.
Kalili, of Honaunau, was charged with second-degree robbery last year in connection with a backpack taken from a 35-year-old man leaving a Hele-On Bus in Kailua-Kona on Feb. 23, 2011.
He was the second inmate in a week to escape from the Hale Nani work-release facility. Police were still looking for Ryan James Jeffries-Hamar, who was nearing the end of a 10-year sentence for two counts of first-degree burglary when he walked away from the transitional facility on Aug. 14.
Jeffries-Hamar was reportedly seen in Kainaliu and Kailua-Kona on Aug. 15.
He is about 5 feet 7 inches tall and 170 pounds, with blue eyes and short reddish-blond hair. He has a tattoo along his entire right arm.
A third Hale Nani inmate, Dallas Wesley Runyon, 32, of Kau, who also was nearing the end of his sentence, escaped on July 21 and remains at large.
Runyon is about 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs about 175 pounds and has blue eyes. He had a goatee and mustache and shoulder-length brown or blond hair but may have shaved his face and head. He also has several tattoos, including a gargoyle on his right forearm, a dragon on his inner left forearm and others on his right arm and both legs.
Neither Runyon nor Jeffries-Hamar is considered dangerous.