{"id":290387,"date":"2023-09-19T14:53:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=290387"},"modified":"2023-09-20T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:23:47","slug":"las-vegas-strip-traffic-stop-leads-to-arrest-of-escaped-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas-strip-traffic-stop-leads-to-arrest-of-escaped-prisoner\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Strip Traffic Stop Leads to Arrest of Escaped Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"

A routine traffic stop<\/a> last week near Las Vegas Boulevard led to the arrest of an escaped inmate, authorities revealed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Clark County Detention Center, pictured above. An escaped inmate was placed in the jail and remained in custody there this week. (Image: Las Vegas Review Journal<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An alert Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officer noticed last Tuesday that a car didn\u2019t have the required license plates. This happened while it was near the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Four Seasons Drive.<\/p>\n

The officer put on his siren and lights, and the driver stopped about 30 seconds later.<\/p>\n

The unnamed driver then tossed his keys out of the door, police said. The officer ordered everyone out of the car and asked them to identify themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fake Name, Social Security Number<\/h2>\n

It turns out Ronnie Blanch, 48, was a passenger in the car. Blanch first gave a fake name<\/a>, birthday, and Social Security number to the officer, authorities said. He also failed to provide identification, authorities added.<\/p>\n

As an officer was transporting\u00a0Blanch to Clark County Detention Center for booking on last Wednesday, Blanch eventually gave his real name.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The officer checked it in the department\u2019s records, and saw he had escaped on September 4 from an unnamed transitional correctional facility for sober housing.<\/p>\n

He will be charged for the escape, according to Las Vegas TV station KLAS<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Before being sent to the transitional facility, he was sentenced to High Desert State Prison<\/a>, located in Indian Springs, Nevada. He was convicted on drug and forgery counts, as well as for being a habitual offender, KLAS<\/em> reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In January, the Nevada Parole Board revoked his parole after a January hearing. The earliest he could next get parole is February, though the escape could impact any request.<\/p>\n

Blanch remained in custody in the Clark County Detention Center<\/a> as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It was unclear if the driver or other passengers in the car were charged. State law requires plates on the front and back of a vehicle.<\/p>\n

Earlier Escape<\/h2>\n

In an unrelated incident, last September Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, 43, a convicted murderer, escaped from Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs, Nevada.<\/p>\n

He had been sentenced to a life term in connection with a fatal 2007 bombing at the Luxor<\/a> in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

LVMPD officers arrested him at a Las Vegas bus station five days after his escape. He was boarding a bus heading to Mexico when he was apprehended. A bus station worker recognized the escapee and called authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duarte-Herrera apparently left some kind of cardboard dummy in his prison cell to mislead guards, according to KLAS<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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