ICE detainees flee from custody in Colorado after reported power outage
Two men held in custody by immigration authorities fled from detention near Denver after a jail's electrical power gave out and inadvertently their doors to freedom, officials said Wednesday.
Two men held in custody by immigration authorities fled from detention near Denver after a jail's electrical power gave out and inadvertently their doors to freedom, officials said Wednesday.
Geilond Vido-Romero, 24, and Joel Jose Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 32, "are still at large and the search is ongoing," the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement.
ICE jailers in Aurora, about 10 miles east of downtown Denver, noticed the men were gone at about 12:35 a.m. MDT on Wednesday and connected their disappearance to a power outage that happened at about 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, authorities said.
The Aurora Police Department report states that "when the power went out, the back doors of the facility opened up to the soccer field" and ICE officials believe "that both inmates escaped through the back door when the power went out."
Police phone records showed that ICE first called local police for help at 2:32 a.m., meaning the men could have had as much as a five-hour head start.
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