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THE LONE STAR
FUGITIVE TASK FORCE ANNOUNCES THE ARREST OF ESCAPED TEXAS INMATE ON
THE RUN FOR TEN YEARS
Del Rio – The Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force along with the Val Verde County Sheriff’s
Office announce the arrest of Jose Rivera, an escaped convict who
was captured in Miami last week by the Miami-Dade Police
Department.
On August 9, 1997,
three inmates broke out of the Val Verde County Detention Center
after they pried open a door leading to a crawl space with pipes
that led to the facility’s roof. The men then crawled through a
steel grate and used a homemade rope to scale the side of the
detention center and fled into the desert scrub brush. Since his
escape, Rivera has used many aliases and fraudulent identifiers.
Val Verde County
Sheriff A. D’Wayne Jernigan, who had only been in office for about a
month at the time of the escape, said he is proud of the efforts
officers put into the manhunt for the escapees. “I commend the Lone
Star Fugitive Task Force and our own Jesse Lopez for their continued
efforts in looking for these fugitives. They’re tracking them down
and putting them back where they belong!”
United
States Marshal for the Western District of Texas LaFayette Collins
said, “Fugitives only have two choices when being pursued by the
Lone Star Fugitive Task Force; either peacefully surrender to law
enforcement authorities or face a life of constant fear, knowing no
matter where you hide or how far you run, in the end, you face
justice”.
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