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WESTMINSTER, Calif. — A 74-year-old California auto disciplinarian accepted to die aback an able bastille bedfellow put a gun to his abdomen and kidnapped him. But on Wednesday, the disciplinarian instead thanked the man for extenuative his life.
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Cab disciplinarian Long Hoang Ma abundant the agonizing anniversary he spent with the three agitated fugitives who able on Jan. 22 from the Orange County bastille and the abrupt affection from one of them, Bac Duong, a adolescent Vietnamese immigrant.
Ma said his affliction began afterwards he aback best them up aloof hours afterwards their jailbreak and Duong pulled the gun.
In the canicule that followed, however, Duong began calling him “uncle” and eventually aerated him to abandon from a cabin in San Jose area the fugitives had holed up during a manhunt.
“From the basal of my heart, I can say Bac Duong adored my activity and I’m so beholden and beholden to him. I anticipation I was dying,” Ma said in Vietnamese through a translator at Ngoi Viet, a bi-weekly in Westminster.
Ma said he speaks bound English and did not apperceive from minute to minute if he would animate or die as he was affected to biking 400 afar with his captors and they fought over his fate.
They acclimated Ma’s identification to analysis into two motels and to aces up $3,000 from Western Union that he was told had been active to avoiding Hossein Nayeri by his mother.
Duong, 43, told him as they collection to assurance on Jan. 28 that Nayeri and the added fugitive, Jonathan Tieu, had been planning to tie him up with braiding bought at Home Depot that morning and annihilate him, Ma said.
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Duong was abashed about his own life, too, afterwards a anchor action with Nayeri over what to do with Ma that larboard Duong bloody.
“I don’t apperceive English actual able-bodied but I heard Nayeri adage ‘Bang, old man! Bang, old man!’ and they were angry aback alternating with anniversary other,” Ma said. “Bac was abashed of him.”
A day earlier, the fugitives had apprenticed Ma to Santa Cruz and marched him to the end of a pier, area Nayeri took cellphone pictures of Ma with himself and Tieu but larboard Duong out of the photos.
“On the way back, they took a altered alley and they went about and around,” Ma said. “When we got aback to the (motel) room, I knew I was animate for one added day.”
Nayeri, 37, Tieu, 20, and Duong bankrupt out of the bastille by acid through a metal abrade that led to a accouterments tunnel. The leash afresh crawled through brim to the jail’s roof, area they rappeled four belief to abandon application a braiding fabricated of bed linens. An abettor best them up and collection them to safety.
Duong surrendered Friday in Santa Ana afterwards beat San Jose with Ma. Nayeri and Tieu were arrested Saturday in San Francisco afterwards a abandoned man appear seeing a white van analogous the description of a agent that authorities said had been baseborn by the fugitives.
The man, Matthew Hay-Chapman, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he sleeps in the esplanade but follows accepted contest and accustomed the car. He could wind up accession $140,000 in accolade money, the cardboard appear (http://sfchron.cl/1SEK8i3).
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Ma’s affliction began backward Jan. 22, aback Duong alleged his cellphone to adjustment a cab. The grandfathering of eight, who is from Ca Mau Province and was a captain in the South Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War, advertises his absolute cab business in Vietnamese-language newspapers.
He took Duong and the added men several places, including a Target and a coin-operated laundry. Later in the evening, Duong apprenticed the gun into Ma’s stomach, took his cellphone and said, “’We charge you. You accept to advice us for a few days,”’ Ma recalled.
Nayeri took the caster and collection to a cabin in Rosemead. The abutting morning, Duong angry on the TV and the leash gloated as they saw their mug shots splashed beyond the screen.
Later that day, Duong blanket authorization plates and the white GMC van, Ma said.
The four men afresh collection to the San Francisco Bay Area afterwards spending three added nights in a motel.
Duong was with Ma in the taxi; Nayeri and Tieu were in the van.
They ate pizza, absurd rice and pasta. And anniversary night, the three inmates drank two cases of Heineken beer and a canteen of Jack Daniel’s.
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The action that ultimately bankrupt up the accumulation — and adored Ma — came on one of those alcohol-fueled evenings. The abutting morning, Nayeri larboard the gun with Duong and Ma aback he went with Tieu to buy the rope.
Duong took the gun and the abutting day, aback he and Ma were abandoned again, he ordered Ma into the taxi. Ma anticipation Duong was activity to annihilate him but instead they headed south — and a visibly agitated Duong talked about Nayeri.
“Bac Duong said, ‘escaping the bastille was not accessible ... but now Nayeri is behaving like this,”’ Ma recalled. “’How can he do business?”’
On Wednesday, a adequate and animated Ma was afresh abaft the caster of his Honda Civic taxi. Bright chicken affirmation stickers placed by sheriff’s board were still added to the block and a aback door.
As he slipped abaft the wheel, Ma nodded to a baby bronze of Buddha propped on the dashboard and grinned.
“I had this on my car the accomplished time,” he said. “I anticipate his bronze brought luck to me.”
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