Jul 11, 2021 / 05:00 PM CDT / Updated:
Jul 11, 2021 / 10:48 AM CDT
David Mordukhaev escaped a Department of Correction facility in the Bronx on July 10, 2021, officials said. (Credit: NYPD; stock image)
NEW YORK (WPIX) Authorities in New York are searching for a prisoner who escaped a prison barge, officials confirmed on Saturday.
According to WPIX, David Mordukhaev, 30, escaped a New York City Department of Correction holding facility in the Bronx. The inmate was discovered missing around 4:35 a.m. on Saturday when officials discovered he was not inside his housing unit at the Vernon C. Bain Center in Hunts Point
The facility, a massive barge anchored near Halleck Street that’s used to hold DOC inmates, was placed on lockdown and a manhunt was immediately launched, officials said.
An inmate who went missing from a jail barge in the Bronx early Saturday has been captured, police said.
David Mordukhaev, 30, was reported missing from his assigned housing area when officers checked, Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Peter Thorne told CNN in a statement.
Police say that Mordukhaev escaped from the Vernon C. Bain Center, nicknamed The Boat, at 4:15 a.m. UPDATE: David has been apprehended, the New York Police Department tweeted Saturday evening, without giving any details.
It was not immediately clear why Mordukhaev was being held at the facility.
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By Artemis Moshtaghian and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN
Updated 9:43 PM ET, Sat July 10, 2021
David Mordukhaev was reported missing from the Vernon C. Bain Center in the Bronx. (CNN)An inmate who went missing from a jail barge in the Bronx early Saturday has been captured, police said.
David Mordukhaev, 30, was reported missing from his assigned housing area when officers checked, Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Peter Thorne told CNN in a statement.
Police say that Mordukhaev escaped from the Vernon C. Bain Center, nicknamed The Boat, at 4:15 a.m. The individual who escaped this morning has been reapprehended, said city Department of Correction Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi.
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