Louisiana Casino Robber Escapes from Jail, Sheriff Promises Disciplinary Action
An alleged armed cassino robber escaped from a Louisiana poky this hebdomad and remains on the loose. The break-out was blamed on unspecified “employee error.”
Roller Avila, 19, of Donaldsonville, La., apparently snuck out from the Assumption Parish Detention Center on Tuesday evening. He was beingness held on an armed robbery charge.
Details on the escape were non released past the sheriff’s office. The office pledges to have “disciplinary action” against mistaken employees, WAFB, a local TV station, reported.
Since the breakout, Avila potential fled from the area. The gaol is set close Napoleonville, La.
Lonny Cavalier, commander of the August 15 Sheriff office’s felonious administrative section, confirmed at that place was a “breach in performance protocol inwards maintaining the reckon of inmates.”
“Our readiness is as untroubled as the people who do work it,” Cavalier told WAFB. “We are making changes to make water sure this does not happen again.”
Investigation Underway
Sheriff Leland Falcon has undertaken “an investigation and disciplinary activity testament be assessed accordingly to the responsible employee or employees,” Cavalier added.
Avila is Hispanic, most 5-feet, 9-inches tall and weighs roughly 125 pounds. He was one of octad suspects who was mired in the robbery of Louisiana’s Cane Row Truck Stop & Casino on Sept. 29.
Besides Avila, some other suspects were identified as Jose Luis Gordillo, 18, of Gulfport, Miss., Hector Omar Barahona, 20, of New Orleans, La., and Brayon Chinchilla Pacheco, 18, of Harvey, La.
Also, before arrests include Jonathan Lopez, 19, also of Harvey, La., Norman D. Escalate, 18, of Terrytown, La., and an unnamed 17-year-old from Gretna, La.
Each was charged with armed robbery with a firearm. type A 16-year-old from Marrero, La., was charged with existence an accouterment after the fact to armed robbery with a firearm.
Deputies are investigating if any of the suspects are connected to other robberies, The Advocate, a Baton Rouge, La. newspaper, reported. Besides Avila, to the highest degree of the other suspects are inwards the August 15 Parish Detention Center
Pacheo is currently in custody inward Kansas, incarcerated on several unrelated charges. He will face a complaint in LA after the Kansas River charges are addressed in courts inwards that state.
Authorities did non say how much immediate payment was stolen inward the robbery.
Nevada Prison Escape
In an unrelated escape, finally month Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, 42, who was sentenced to life-time inward prison house for the 2007 fateful bombing at a Las Vegas Strip casino, escaped from custody.
A few days later, he was apprehended inward Las Vegas around to gameboard a heap to Mexico. He was placed inwards another prison.
He was incarcerated since 2010 at the Southern Desert Correctional Center inwards American Indian Springs, Nev. It is largely a spiritualist security measures prison.
Meanwhile, the Inspector General for the Battle Born State Department of Corrections will refresh the actions of the prison guards inward connexion with Duarte-Herrera’s escape.
Duarte-Herrera and a 2nd defendant, Omar Rueda-Denvers, were convicted for the demise of the victim.
He was Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio. He was killed after a tobacco pipe bomb exploded on the Luxor Hotel & Casino’s parking garage roof.