VALYERMO, Calif. (AP) - State authorities say a minimum-security inmate who walked away from a conservation camp in Los Angeles County last week has been found dead.
A hiker found the body of 37-year-old Jon Michael Nicholas late Thursday at South Fork Campground in the San Gabriel Mountains, a few miles from Fenner Canyon Conservation Camp.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says camp staff identified the body as that of Nicholas, who was discovered to be missing on the morning of April 2.
The cause of death has not yet been determined.
Last year, Nicholas began serving a five-year, four-month term for assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft auto.
Corrections operates the camp with Cal Fire to provide inmate fire crews to LA, Kern and San Bernardino counties.
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