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Criminal Who Drugged and Swapped Places With Twin Brother to Escape Prison Recaptured
Source: Newsweek
CRIMINAL WHO DRUGGED AND SWAPPED PLACES WITH TWIN BROTHER TO ESCAPE PRISON RECAPTURED
BY TOM PORTER ON 2/14/18 AT 7:23 AM
A criminal who escaped a Peruvian prison by drugging his twin brother and leaving him in his place has been recaptured after more than a year on the run.
Alexander Delgado Herrera was serving a 16 year sentence for child sexual abuse and robbery in a prison outside the Peruvian capital, Lima, when his twin brother, Giancarlo, visited in January 2017.
Alexander drugged his brother, changed into his clothes and walked out of the jail, the BBC reported.
Authorities were able to confirm that Alexander had left his brother in his place when they took Giancarlo’s fingerprints.
He was the first prisoner in more than a decade to escape from the prison. “It’s unbelievable. In 12 years nobody had escaped from Ancón I,” former Justice Minister Marisol Pérez Tello said at the time.
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BY TOM PORTER ON 2/14/18 AT 7:23 AM
A criminal who escaped a Peruvian prison by drugging his twin brother and leaving him in his place has been recaptured after more than a year on the run.
Alexander Delgado Herrera was serving a 16 year sentence for child sexual abuse and robbery in a prison outside the Peruvian capital, Lima, when his twin brother, Giancarlo, visited in January 2017.
Alexander drugged his brother, changed into his clothes and walked out of the jail, the BBC reported.
Authorities were able to confirm that Alexander had left his brother in his place when they took Giancarlo’s fingerprints.
He was the first prisoner in more than a decade to escape from the prison. “It’s unbelievable. In 12 years nobody had escaped from Ancón I,” former Justice Minister Marisol Pérez Tello said at the time.
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Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/criminal-who-drugged-and-swapped-places-twin-brother-escape-prison-recaptured-806479
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