$10K Reward Offered for Escaped NJ Detainees

2 of 4 men who broke out of immigration facility last week have been recaptured
Posted Jun 16, 2025 12:34 PM CDT
2 of 4 Escaped NJ Detainees Recaptured
A Special Response Team with ICE arrives at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility during a protest over federal immigration enforcement raids on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Newark, NJ.   (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Two of four detainees who escaped from a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey last week are still at large and the other two have been recaptured, authorities say. Federal authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Honduran citizen Franklin Norberto Bautista Reyes, 20; and Colombian national Andres Felipe Pineda-Mogollon, 24, NBC News reports. According to an FBI wanted notice, Reyes' last known address was in Long Branch, New Jersey. Pineda-Mogollon's last known address was in Newark, and he also has ties to Queens.

Both men were arrested last month, Reyes on charges including assault and possession of an illegal weapon and Pineda-Mogollon on burglary charges, the New York Times reports. The FBI said Sunday that two other men who escaped on Thursday, Honduran citizen Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez of Honduras and Colombian citizen Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada, had been taken into custody.

Around 1,000 detainees are being held at the private Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, where Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested during a protest last month. Investigators say the four escapees kicked through a wall to get to a parking lot and then hopped a fence, NBC reports. Sen. Andy Kim toured the center on Friday and said the wall was "essentially just drywall with some mesh inside that led to an exterior wall. It shows just how shoddy construction was here." (More immigration stories.)

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