Police continue to search for a San Francisco man who should not have been released from jail.
According to authorities, Alfredo Guadalupe Ortiz, 28, who was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend, was accidentally released from San Mateo County jail due to a clerical gaffe.
The defendant reportedly failed to appear at a court hearing on Monday. He had been convicted last week of domestic violence, and could have gotten nine years in jail.
The court ordered Ortiz be held without bail, but a sheriff's employee at the Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City noted Ortiz's bail at $25,000 instead of no bail.
Ortiz's family reportedly posted the bail and he was released late Friday evening.
In a more bizarre jailhouse happening, a man awaiting trial on charges of killing a couple and disposing of their bodies at sea in a plot to steal their pleasure craft tried to cut off a part of his body in jail.
According to authorities with the Orange County Sheriff's Department, suspect Skylar Deleon, 29, somehow managed to obtain a razor and "tried to saw off his penis" while in his cell.
An OCSD spokesman said the attempt was unsuccessful, however there was a lot of blood present. The suspect reportedly stopped the effort when he could not carry out the procedure on his own or was stopped by a guard.
Deleon was reportedly taken to a hospital and the body part was re-attached.
Deleon and John F. Kennedy, both prior Long Beach residents, are accused of murdering Jackie and Thomas Hawks, an Arizona couple, in November 2004 to obtain their cabin-cruiser. Deleon and Kennedy are set to go to trial later next month. Deleon's wife, Jennifer, was convicted for her role in the alleged plot and was sentenced in October to life in prison without parole.
Skylar Deleon is also accused of murdering Jon Peter Jarvi of Anaheim in December 2003 along a highway in Mexico and swiping $50,000 in cash.
Police continue to search for a San Francisco man who should not have been released from jail.
