The Associated Press via
NBC News
Nevada authorities captured the Latino inmate sentenced to life in prison Wednesday night who escaped from a Nevada state prison last weekend, authorities said Thursday.
Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, a 42-year-old Nicaraguan man who killed a hot dog vendor in 2007, was located thanks to a tip-off received by police as he was getting on a bus to leave Las Vegas.
Archive image of Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, sentenced to life for the murder of a 'hot dog' sellerNoticias Telemundo
City police received a tip Wednesday night about a person matching the description of Duarte-Herrera.
The agents took the man away and confirmed that it was the escaped prisoner, who was detained.
The South Desert Jail in Indian Springs did not discover that Duarte-Herrera had escaped until an inmate count conducted Tuesday at 7 a.m., authorities said.
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But Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak told NBC News affiliate Las Vegas station KSNV that the prisoner hadn't been seen since "early in the weekend."
"Policies and procedure and all the failures that occurred on Friday [of last week] and through Tuesday have to be addressed," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said at a news conference Thursday.
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“The infrastructure problems and the personnel problems of the prison system, the ability of this individual to do it [escape], so I have been told as simply as he did, is a serious matter of concern for me and for the entire community. law enforcement and the community as a whole," he stressed.
"In this case, the individual had a four-day head start," the sheriff added. "Fortunately, and unfortunately, he remained in the area and we were able to apprehend him with the help of the public."
Authorities said they will continue to investigate how he managed to escape.
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Duarte-Herrara was convicted along with Omar Rueda-Denvers of planting a bomb that killed
hot dog
vendor Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio in a Luxor casino parking lot in 2007.
Prosecutors then said the motive was revenge against Antonio, 24, who was in a relationship with Rueda-Denvers' ex-girlfriend.
Rueda-Denvers, 47, remains incarcerated at another state prison, according to Department of Corrections records.
