Posted on 09/28/2022 5:24:21 PM PDT by 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.
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Sounds like inside help...probably just looking the other way, for a few bucks and for keeping his family safe.
“I misread and thought this was about the Las Vegas shooter.”
Me too, and probably most here. But don’t get hopefully, the shooter has gone dark.
When they find him I hope they make that “life sentence” an extremely short one.
What the hell are lifers doing in a medium security prison?
Our justice system’s gone insane.
Prisoners can buy a cat?
“If I end up in prison, smuggle cardboard to my cell.”
And $$ for bribes
He had to be in contact with someone on the outside. Indian Springs is halfway between Vegas and Mercury (home of the Nevada Test Site - atom bomb land) and there is a whole lot of nothing out there.
“Dang...Friday to Tuesday.
If they didn’t know he was missing how do they say when he went missing?
Just save your milk cartoons.
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Another argument in favor of the death penalty.
Duarte-Herrera, from Nicaragua, was convicted in 2010 of killing Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio, a 27-year-old hot dog stand vendor, using a motion-activated bomb hidden inside a coffee cup placed 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.
Prosecutors said Rueda-Denvers masterminded the targeted attack as part of a revenge plot against Donarntes Antonio, who was dating his ex-girlfriend.
Of course, display skills worthy of some OSS/CIA hit because some guys ex-girl friend is dating a hot dog vendor. More evidence, if any more were needed, about the absulure propensity for spectacular folly humans love to engage in. Sobering when one considers the current European situation.
Ummm, a question: who is supposed to be the dummy in this story?
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