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Guilford County, NC.- Adriana Marin Sotelo has been charged in connection with the escape of a federal prisoner from a Virginia state jail, according to a criminal complaint filed with the Middle District of North Carolina.
The report indicates that between April 29 and May 1, Marin Sotelo “committed the following federal crime: conspiracy to incite or help to escape” in the escape of Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo, who was related to the death at Shots of Wake County Highway Patrolman Ned Byrd in 2022.
According to the documents, Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo was seen on surveillance video escaping from the Piedmont Regional Jail just before 2 a.m. on April 30. Several hours later he was seen leaving in a red Mustang.
RESEARCH
Agents began reviewing phone calls that Marin-Sotelo and two other alleged accomplices had made from jail before the escape.
According to the documents, on April 28, one of the co-conspirators, who has not been charged, called his brother, identified as “unindicted co-conspirator 2.”
During that phone call, the caller tells his brother to “pick up the getaway car” in High Point. During a follow-up phone call later that day, the caller gave “co-conspirator 2” a phone number that belonged to Adriana Marin Sotelo, telling them to talk to her and arrange a place to pick up the car and have it ready. for midnight. .
The next day, Marin-Sotelo called Adriana and told her to get the car and $2,500 for Co-Conspirator 2, who was with him at the time of this phone call.
THE ESCAPE
Co-conspirator 2 was seen on a video call with the first caller that night, showing them that they were leaving the car, a red Mustang, in the jail parking lot. Then, early Sunday morning, Marin-Sotelo is allegedly seen climbing over the fence and leaving in the vehicle.
Co-Conspirator 1 spoke with Co-Conspirator 2 later Sunday morning and they discussed not being able to contact Marin-Sotelo about the additional $2,500 he had allegedly ordered him to pay them.
Co-conspirator 1 told investigators that Adriana Sotelo had bought the car for $3,000 and given it to co-conspirator 2 to leave in the jail parking lot for Marin-Sotelo’s escape. Co-conspirator 2 told investigators that they met the woman at Palacious Automotive in High Point and took her car.
Adriana Sotelo was arrested in Guilford County, North Carolina.
LAST CASE
The Prince Edward County Sheriff’s Office, in Virginia, sent a press release detailing the escape of two inmates, one of them identified as Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo, indicted by a grand jury for the murder of the county deputy of the county of Wake, Ned Byrd, in August 2022.
Arturo Marin-Sotelo, 29, of Apex, was also arrested and charged in connection with Byrd’s death and his other brother, Rolando, was also in custody but was not charged.
Ned Byrd was shot and killed on August 12, 2022 in Wake County.
