Looks like an inmate who escaped from the Piedmont Regional Jail in Farmville Virginia earlier this week and found in Mexico Thursday afternoon.
According to FBI Charlotte, Alder Marin Sotelo was taken into custody by Mexican authorities on Thursday (May 4). According NBC news, the Prince Edward County Sheriff’s Office said jail official have investigators surveillance footage of Marin Sotelo climbing over the perimeter fence at 1:18 a.m. early Sunday morning and left the jail driving a 2003 red or burgundy Ford Mustang.
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Inette Brown, a neighbor who lives close by to the jail shared her thoughts on the situation saying she was shocked he was able to get away. “That morning when I got up, I heard all these helicopters because I was taking a shower, and I was like, what are all these helicopters doing here,” she told NBC12. “My brother, he lives a couple of doors from me, and he called me and said you got your doors locked? Because two inmates has escaped from Piedmont Jail.’ I said what. I said yeah, they’re locked, and they’re going to stay locked too.”
The Piedmont Regional Jail Authority Board released a statement saying:
“The Piedmont Regional Jail Authority Board is issuing this statement to clarify certain information being disseminated by various media outlets.
On Sunday, April 30, 2023, two U.S. Marshal offenders being held at Piedmont Regional Jail escaped from the facility. The Jail’s management is assisting local, state, and federal law enforcement to locate the inmates and determine how they were able to escape.
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Initial findings suggest that the inmates were able to breach an exterior door at the facility. While it is true that the Piedmont Regional Jail Authority Board has discussed door lock replacement in previous meetings, such discussions pertained to interior doors in a different housing pod from which the inmates escaped. The replacement of these interior locks is part of the capital improvement plan for the Jail.
In addition, contrary to reports, the vehicle which Mr. Marin-Sotelo was apparently able to access was not parked on jail property, but rather in a lot offsite.
The Piedmont Regional Jail Authority Board is working with Superintendent Townsend, to ensure that a thorough investigation is performed and any personnel or facility issues that are identified are remedied immediately.”
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