Las Vegas bomber serving life sentence for murder escapes from prison

NY Post ^ | September 28, 2022 | Snejana Farberov

[BenLurkin]

A convicted bomber serving a life sentence for a deadly 2007 blast on the Las Vegas Strip escaped from a Nevada prison after reportedly leaving a dummy in his cell — and his absence was not discovered until days later.

Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, 42, vanished from the Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs on Friday night, the Nevada Department of Corrections confirmed.

Officers at the medium-security prison didn’t realize the inmate was missing until a head count on Tuesday, at around 7 a.m., and they launched a search for him an hour later.

Duarte-Herrera had created a dummy, possibly out of cardboard, and left it in his cell to fool the guards and delay the discovery of his escape, 8NewsNow reported, citing multiple unnamed sources.

[Seruzawa]

Corrections Officers living up to their reputations again.

[devane617]

Dang...Friday to Tuesday.

[Captain Peter Blood]

days later! Don’t they more frequent checks.

[fhayek]

...until days later.

...facepalm.

[SaveFerris]

(after reportedly leaving a dummy in his cell)

That’s no way to treat ___________! (insert name of random Democrat politician)

[Jonty30]

*makes note.

If I end up in prison, smuggle cardboard to my cell.

[hinckley buzzard]

Cartel buddies paid off a guard. No big mystery.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I can see two major problems here.

His absence was not discovered for several days, and this violent criminal sentence to life was in a medium security prison , as opposed to a Maximum Security Prison.

And will he be tracked down given that he has a head start of a number of days.

[dfwgator]

[SamAdams76]

He pulled the old Ferris Bueller trick...

[LouAvul]

Filthy language. Trashy.

[ConservativeWarrior]

Haha...

I was picturing more of the paper mache’ dummy a la Escape from Alcatraz....

[Flaming Conservative]

Why is he in a medium security prison in the first place? Maximum security sounds like a better place for him.

[Delta 21]

Seems the Midnight Express stops there occasionally.

[nascarnation]

Why is he in a medium security prison in the first place?

Told the judge he wanted to get OJ's autograph.

[fidelis]

"The old 'cardboard dummy in the prison cell bed' trick, and I fell for it!"

[NetAddicted]

I misread and thought this was about the Las Vegas shooter.

[nascarnation]

That guy is dead, at least supposedly.