Patrol officers apprehended 42-year-old Porfirio Duarte-Herrera “without incident,” according to a tweet from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department early Thursday.
A man who escaped jail earlier this week while serving a life sentence for a fatal explosion that occurred outside a Las Vegas Strip resort in 2007 has been captured by authorities in Las Vegas.
Around 10:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department tweeted that Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, 42, was taken into custody by patrol officers “without incident” (1:30 a.m. ET Thursday.)
It is yet unknown what caused the arrest or how the police located Duarte-Herrera, who had been evading capture since Tuesday. The LVMPD did not immediately answer requests for comments.
According to the Nevada Corrections Department, Duarte-Herrera escaped from the Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs and was found missing during the 7 a.m. count on Tuesday.
The department’s description of the escaped prisoner as a “medium-security inmate” prompted search teams to look for him, and a recapture warrant was issued for his arrest.
Just over two hours before Duarte-arrest, Herrera’s Las Vegas police had announced that federal authorities were offering a combined $30,000 reward for information leading to his apprehension. They had advised anyone who saw him call 911 right away instead of approaching the fugitive prisoner.
Gov. Steve Sisolak of Nevada said earlier this week that the act was “unacceptable” and that his administration learned on Tuesday that the prisoner had been gone since “early in the weekend.” He claimed to have given the Corrections Department the go-ahead to begin a comprehensive probe into what transpired.
Duarte-Herrera had been serving a life sentence for murder with the use of a deadly weapon when he arrived at the Corrections Department in February 2010 from Clark County.
In 2007, Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio, a seller at a hot dog stand, was killed by a pipe bomb that he and Omar Rueda-Denvers planted in a parking garage of the Luxor hotel-casino.
According to the prosecution, Dorantes Antonio, 24, who was seeing Rueda-Denvers’ ex-girlfriend, was the target of the crime.
Records from the Corrections Department show that Rueda-Denvers, 47, is still incarcerated in different state prisons.
