DEA Agent’s Accused Killer Escapes Prison
A 16-year-old Honduran gang member accused of killing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has escaped from a juvenile prison for the fifth time in three years, said Napoleon Nazar, a national police official.
Herlan Colindres, implicated in 16 other killings, slipped out of the facility in the capital, Tegucigalpa, on Friday, Nazar said.
Colindres and a teenage bodyguard were arrested in July in the killing of Michael Timothy Markey, a DEA agent shot July 29 while visiting a temple outside of Tegucigalpa. He has denied involvement in Markey’s death.
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