Brother, sister, accomplice indicted for Virginia jail break
A murder suspect, his sister and an accomplice were indicted May 30 in connection with a jailbreak a month earlier at Piedmont Regional Jail in Virginia.
Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo was being held there awaiting trial for his role in the shooting death of Wake County Deputy Ned Byrd in August 2022.
Authorities allege Marin-Sotelo had help from his sister, Adriana Marin Sotelo, and another inmate to set up his escape from the jail. He was on the run for about four days and was captured in Mexico, where he is currently being held awaiting extradition.
Warrants allege that the siblings arranged by phone to have Adriana meet up with the sister of another inmate, Geovanni Torres-Santana, to drive a getaway car and park it outside the jail.
Geovanni Torres-Santana and the two Marin-Sotelo siblings are charged with conspiracy to instigate or assist an escape.
According to the indictment, Adriana Marin Sotelo bought a car in High Point and delivered it to the sister of Torres-Santana. That woman is not named in the indictment. The indictment also alleges that Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo asked his sister, Adriana Marin Sotelo, to pay the other woman $2,500 in cash.
On April 29, the indictment says, Torres-Santana called his sister to direct her where to park that car. The next morning at 1:40 a.m., surveillance video from Piedmont Regional Jail showed Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo climbing over the fence. Four hours later, according to warrants from the FBI, "Marin is again captured on video surveillance, this time leaving the jail parking lot in a red Mustang."
