Escape Plot to Blast Hole in North Carolina Jail Falls Apart When Plans Mailed to Wrong Person

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[BenLurkin]

A woman received a letter from the Alamance County jail on Dec. 6, according to the sheriff’s office. Thinking it was a letter to her, she opened it.

Inside, she found a detailed drawing of the Alamance County Detention Center, instructions for making a bomb and a plan for explosives to be planted on the south side of the detention center to create an escape route. That’s when she alerted law enforcement.

Sean Damion Castorina, 43, of Graham, was already in the detention center, serving time on a first-degree murder charge, and now faces new charges for the plot.

If the bomb had gone off according to the mailed plans, it would have injured other inmates and some of the administration.

Detectives found additional evidence of the plot in Castorina’s cell and conversations recorded on phones at the detention center.

[neverevergiveup]

Don’t ya just hate when that happens?

[Tax-chick]

Of course, the article doesn’t explain the recipient’s connection with the inmate.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

Could have been something as simple as a mistaken street number. On our street we get such an accidental mis-delivery just about every week.

[gigster]

As Elvis would say:"Return to sender, address unknown."

[sparklite2]

D’oh!!!

[wally_bert]

The post office is great for junk mail, catalogs, and sometimes other people’s mail.

[Balding_Eagle]

Could have just as easily been a SWAT team as a letter being misdelivered

[susannah59]

I have a post office box and the same thing sometimes happens. The clerk picks up an extra envelope without noticing, the envelope is addressed to the wrong PO box, or it gets put in the wrong box.

[Tax-chick]

It says she thought it was a letter to her. This implies that it had her name and address on it.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

“Thinking it was a letter to her” does not mean it had her name on it; it might mean only it was in a stack of mail which she received and opened. We have had this issue a number of times on my street where we have groups of mailboxes and the postal service sometimes mixes stuff up (or a sender puts the wrong number on an envelope). We have had people open someone else’s mail while whipping through a stack of their own mail.

Not saying that is definitely what happened here, just that it may be a possibility. Why would her name be on that envelope? If she had any connection with the sender they would know if she was interested in helping with the bomb plot.... it seems unlikely (to me anyway) that she would turn in a friend or family member on this.

But more info would be nice to have to know what went on....

[Deplorable American1776]

Oops...if you are going to mail escape plans, make sure you mail it to the right address...

[AlaskaErik]

I want to know how this letter even made it out of the institution. All incoming and outgoing mail is normally scanned for just this type of mail. The prisoner must have found someone to smuggle the letter out and then mail it. Hopefully it was another prisoner who was being released and not jail staff.

[jonrick46]

Is this the workings of the Mexican Drug Cartel?

[ETL]

Reminds me of that scene from Woody Allen's "Take the Money and Run" where they called off the prison break but forgot to tell him, leaving him outside by himself. Others were supposed to be there to perform various duties in the escape attempt.