Agents with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation searched Sunday night for a 25-year-old woman who walked away from the Community Custody Transition Reentry Program.
Aleisha Schmitz was seen getting into a gray or silver Mercedes-Benz outside the CCTRP around 7:10 p.m. Sunday, just before officials received an alert from her monitoring device. Officers were dispatched to the scene and local police were notified, corrections officials said.
Schmitz entered the program from Los Angeles County on July 7, 2022, to serve a three-year sentence for second-degree robbery and hit-and-run causing injury to a person other than herself, authorities said.
She is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 197 pounds, has brown hair and brown eyes, a fair complexion, and was last seen wearing a blue jacket and gray hoodies.
Inmates eligible for the CCTRP serve their sentences in the community instead of prison and receive rehabilitation services to help them with alcohol and drug recovery, employment, education, housing, family reunification and social support, corrections officials said.
Authorities did not say which Los Angeles County facility Schmitz walked from, but there is a 60-bed facility at 2756 James M. Wood Boulevard in Los Angeles and an 82-bed facility at 11121 Bloomfield Avenue in Santa Fe Springs.
Anyone who sees Schmitz or knows his whereabouts is asked to contact the police or call 911.
