SOUTH SALT LAKE — Police were searching for two Honduran teenage boys who escaped from the Salt Lake County Juvenile Detention Center shortly before 1 p.m. Saturday.
The teens, both 17, crawled under one fence and over a second security fence to escape the facility at 3450 S. 900 West, said South Salt Lake Police Department spokesman Gary Keller.
The missing boys are Yuvine Eusada-Alvares, who is about 5 feet tall and weighs 110 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes and Jonathan Grandes-Maves, who is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 120 pounds.
Both were last seen wearing standard detention center-issued clothing: blue pants, gray T-shirts and white shoes.
Anyone with information about of the juveniles is asked to call South Salt Lake Police Dispatch at 801-840-4000.
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