“I’m not saying saying I feel mentally disturbed”, Resiles responded, “but I’m not saying I won’t”.
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That prompted Davis to order a mental health evaluation.
“He said he might have an issue”, Williams said.
“You’re going to be isolated from the general population”, said Magistrate Judge Michael Davis.
Fellow inmate Walter M. Hart III, 22, awaiting trial for an unrelated 2014 murder, was charged Wednesday with helping Resiles “begin to defeat the shackling system used to secure inmates” prior to entering the courtroom, according to arrest reports.
The manhunt included over 200 BSO employees, U.S. Marshals investigators and police departments from Fort Lauderdale, Sunrise, North Miami Beach, Davie, Coral Springs and West Palm Beach, as well as the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
“He came out of the room”.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Resiles surrendered at a Days Inn motel. He lay on the ground and allowed himself to be handcuffed.
No force was necessary, the sheriff said.
Seated in a jury box with other inmates, Resiles suddenly leaped over a low courtroom wall, eluded the grasp of courtroom bailiffs and sprinted down a hallway toward a set of stairs, witnesses said. Although one bailiff grabbed the collar of Resiles’ jumpsuit, he was able to wriggle out of it and flee down a stairwell. Surveillance video showed him running out of the courthouse in a white T-shirt and black shorts.
Resiles is charged with the killing of Jill Halliburton Su in 2014 and could be given the death penalty if convicted.
Two more alleged accomplices have been arrested for playing roles in the escape from a South Florida courthouse of a murder suspect who’s now back in custody.
Resiles’ cousin, Francine Mesadieu, 31, and his friend, Paige Jackson, 18, both of Fort Lauderdale, were arrested Wednesday.
“During the three-way telephone calls facilitated by Jackson, Resiles and his accomplices meticulously planned the escape”, the arrest report says. “Broward County and South Florida is a safer place”. He was already being held without bail on the murder charge.
During Jackson’s first-appearance court hearing, her mother and stepfather were present.
The judge also ruled that Jackson, who is pregnant, must remain on house arrest if she gets out of jail.
– Resiles’ 18-year-old girlfriend, LaQuay Stern, and 22-year-old Winston Russell were in the auto outside with a change of clothes.
Israel previously said that the twins sat in the courtroom while Stern and Russell waited in her silver BMW on the north side of the courthouse. When Resiles made his break for it, one of the brothers coughed into the cellphone to signal those outside he was on his way.
Israel has promised a thorough investigation of the escape. A reward for Resiles’ capture was increased to $50,000 Wednesday.
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Resiles was returned to the main county jail early Thursday morning.
