Posted on 07/10/2010 11:52:26 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Inmate escaped using the garbage disposal system
EL PASO, Texas -- U.S. Marshals confirmed to ABC-7 Friday afternoon that a body found in a Sunland Park, N.M. landfill was that of a federal inmate who escaped the El Paso jail earlier in the day.
Carlos Roberto Medina-Bailon, 30, of Delicias, Mexico, is believed to have escaped the El Paso County Detention Facility between 4:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Friday by using the garbage disposal system and crushed by the garbage truck compactor.
Video: videoEscaped Jailed Inmate's Body Found in Landfill
He was working as a trusty in the kitchen downstairs in jail, helping to prepare breakfast, when he escaped.
After escaping through the garbage disposal system, Medina-Bailon then hid in a dumpster when the trash was picked up by a garbage truck. The sheriff's office checked with the company providing garbage service to the jail facility which revealed they had already dumped their load at the landfill in Sunland Park, N.M.
Medina-Bailon had been housed at the Downtown jail for a month while awaiting trial on a federal drug charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute. Wiles confirmed Medina-Bailon does have ties to a Mexican drug cartel because of the drug charge.
El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles admitted Friday morning there was flaw in the way trash was disposed of at the jail and said they have fixed that flaw to prevent future escapes. He did not go into specifics of what was changed.
The downtown El Paso jail, operated by the El Paso County Sheriff's office, houses federal and local inmates awaiting trial. The jail is within walking distance of the Mexican border.
Sheriff's deputy Jesse Tovar said the last escape at the downtown jail was in 1997.
Where is R2D2 when you need him?
He had a pressing engagement.
Escape fail!!!111
An appropriate location for rubbish. Just leave him there and cover him up.
Who writes this stuff anyway? It’s “trustee” not trusty.
When planning a jail break make your research is thorough.
Update ping!
actully as i found out yesterday it is trusty
a trustee is a legal term for someone who holds or manages assets of another
Darwin award?
Garbage in.....garbage out...that’s one way to deport them!
Thanks, I stand corrected.
I’ve always seen it spelled trustee, never bothered to confirm it, now who “writes this stuff anyway?” ;^)
LOL
:)
I wrote trustee yesterday when this was reported on here the trusty tried to escape
That is how I learned after I looked it up
the salient point here is this was an illegal with a long history who got what was coming to him
Good riddance to bad rubbish
Only serve time in facilities served by loader-trucks, never packers. (I worked on a garbage truck one summer, I know the difference.)
Too bad we can’t take all the trash out this way.
There is at least a 10’ fall from the dumpster into the back of a dump truck! Right into a steel bed. And then, CRUSHED! Hope he enjoyed the smell as he was dying.
“they have fixed that flaw to prevent future escapes”
I think posting this article would fix that so-called flaw.
Disagree. See Trusty Definition
Don't you hate it when that happens?
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