On the afternoon of 7 November, officers of Khánh Hòa province and the Ministry of Public Security arrested Hồ Văn Tình, the last of four inmates who had escaped from A2 Prison.[1][2][3] Tình was serving a 20-year prison sentence for murder and for illegal drug trafficking and was a specially wanted fugitive.[1]
All four inmates who fled on the afternoon of 21 October were caught after 17 days of searching.[1][3] He was caught in the Cây Cày forest area in Bắc Khánh Vĩnh commune, where he was lucid and did not resist officers.[4] Officers surrounded and caught him as he hid in a concrete well shaft in the forested hills of Suối Cau village.[5] Officers had searched Hòn Dữ mountain, the Cây Cày forest in Suối Cau village and neighbouring areas and set checkpoints on the roads into the area.[1]
Officers of the ministry’s investigative units and Khánh Hòa police mobilised hundreds of officers and soldiers to find Tình.[1][2] Before escaping, Tình had stabbed and seriously injured two police officers who came to arrest him in a drug case.[4] In January 2025 the Gia Lai provincial court sentenced him to 20 years in prison for murder and illegal drug trafficking.[5]
In the 21 October escape, the four inmates taking part in a work detail at Sub-camp No. 1 fled, and the prison director opened a criminal case and issued a nationwide special wanted notice for them.[6] Lê Văn Cường, serving 10 years for theft and illegal drug possession, was arrested on a coach on 24 October on National Highway 27C.[6][3] Võ Hoàng Duy, serving 20 years for illegal drug trafficking, was arrested on 28 October.[6][3] Lữ Văn Toàn, serving 20 years for murder, was caught before dawn on 3 November in the mountains of Bắc Khánh Vĩnh commune.[6][3]
Hồ Văn Tình was born in 2002 and lives in Gia Lai province.[2] At the time he was caught, Tình was hiding in an abandoned house in Suối Cau village, Bắc Khánh Vĩnh commune, Khánh Hòa province.[2] The hiding place lies in forest and mountain terrain about 20 km by road from A2 Prison in Diên Lâm commune.[2]
