Trio who escaped California Jail had outside help

Nooshafarian Ravaghi, esl teacher that aided inmates in their escape, courtesy NY Daily News iAdd caption

In a follow up to a story I posted on January 25, 2016, entitled , California Jailbreak, according to the NY Daily News. an ESL Teacher was arrested and charged with providing maps to Nayeri, the Iranian escapee. The lady's name appears to be Iranian as well. See full story here....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/arrests-made-connection-calif-prison-escape-article-1.2512243. Nayeri befriended the teacher in class and Nooshafarian Ravaghi, 44, fell for it. If you read my previous post,this is exactly what I said, as there must have been help from somewhere. The trio could not do it entirely on their own. I was in jail too. It's impossible to do anything without outside help.


One prosecutor compared Nayeri to Hannibal Lecter, as he is described as violent and cunning. In one of his crimes, he allegedly cut off the victim's penis. As I spent my own time in prison, I came across a lot of prisoners who can sweet talk to you and get things out of you. This reminds me of FCI Fort Dix where one guy, Joshua Brady, a heavy set fellow with crooked and broken teeth, claimed he was Jewish and sweet talked the Jewish leader, "Rafi" who advanced him 200 dollars for commissary and of course the guy never paid him back. This lead to the great shmeckel check. Rafi was so upset about laying out money to this guy that something came to his head that he has to check out Josh to make sure he is Jewish. He and a guy named Topaz, another middle eastern character, took Brady to the bathroom and told him to pull his pants down. This was not the best idea since Brady was so heavy set with a lot of rolls of fat so you could not get a good view of a circumcision. Moreover, the plan went terribly wrong as there were other black inmates in the open bathroom at the time and the story spread like wildfire in building 5811. Before you know it, Rafi and Topaz names are heard on the Lieutenant's speaker and they are called in for questioning. Both ended up in the solitary confinement (SHU). They could have been charged with sexual assault but luckily they got released after 8 days. 

In my opinion, what Rafi did to Brady was barbaric, disgusting and sick. My old friend David Setelbach, a holocaust survivor himself, said that the Nazis used to tell people to pull their pants down so they can tell who was Jewish by seeing if they were circumcized. It happened to Setelbach and he had to escape to the forest to avoid pulling his pants down for an inspection. I hope Rafi learned his lesson in his 8 day stay in the SHU. It could have been a lot worse for him.   

At FCI Fort Dix, we also had outside teachers coming in to give class and they did interact with students as well. This story shows you the downside of doing that.

Like I said in my previous post, if these guys do get caught, it is not going to be a happy ending for them.  

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