SANTA ANA, Calif. — An inmate who along with two others escaped from a California jail had been ordered deported to Vietnam in 1998 but has been in this country running up a long police record, immigration officials said.

Bac Duong, 43, came to the United States legally in 1991 but was ordered removed seven years later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement Tuesday.

The order came shortly after he served time in state prison on a 1997 burglary conviction, state records show.