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Why not a high security prison????  Life sentence.........

 

 

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities were searching Tuesday for a 42-year-old convicted bombmaker who escaped from a Nevada prison where he was serving a life sentence for a deadly 2007 explosion outside a Las Vegas Strip resort.

 

Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered an investigation into the incident after he said late Tuesday his office learned the escapee had been missing from the medium-security prison since early in the weekend.

 

“This is unacceptable,” Sisolak said in a statement.

 

Officials didn't realize until Tuesday morning Porfirio Duarte-Herrera was missing during a head count at Southern Desert Correctional Center near Las Vegas. A state Department of Corrections statement said search teams were looking for him.

 

Duarte-Herrera, from Nicaragua, was convicted in 2010 of killing a hot dog stand vendor using a motion-activated bomb in a coffee cup atop a car parked at the Luxor hotel-casino.

 

Records show his co-defendant, Omar Rueda-Denvers, remained in custody Tuesday. The 47-year-old from Guatemala is serving a life sentence at a different Nevada prison for murder, attempted murder, explosives and other charges.

 

A Clark County District Court jury spared both men from the death penalty in the slaying of Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio, whom prosecutors identified as the boyfriend of Rueda-Denvers’ ex-girlfriend.

Prosecutors said jealousy was the motive for the attack on the top deck of a two-story parking structure. The blast initially raised fears of a terrorist attack on the Strip.

 

Officials described Duarte-Herrera as 5 feet, 4 inches tall and 135 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair.

 

Sisolak said his office ordered corrections officials to “conduct and complete a thorough investigation into this event as quickly as possible.”

“This kind of security lapse cannot be permitted and those responsible will be held responsible,” he said.

 

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@gertrudecloset My money says he had help from one or more prison employees. Wouldn't be the first time.

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@Love my grandkids wrote:

@gertrudecloset My money says he had help from one or more prison employees. Wouldn't be the first time.


That is sooo true @Love my grandkids .  Look how many days it took them to realize he was gone?  SMH.  He's long gone by now.





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@gertrudecloset, sorry to be the grammar police. I'm sure you meant to write "loose" instead of 'lose'. Maybe fix it?

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@sabatini wrote:

@gertrudecloset, sorry to be the grammar police. I'm sure you meant to write "loose" instead of 'lose'. Maybe fix it?


@sabatini, No thank you.  However, thanks for letting me know I made a grammatical error.  I do that from time to time, and sometimes, I come back and correct (after I've read it, duh) instead of before hitting the post button.

 

 





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They didn't 'realize' he was missing. Inexcusable! Agree it looks like someone inside assisted the escape.