A 26-year-old Key Largo inmate
trustee serving a 180 sentence in Monroe County jail in Marathon for a fraud conviction
attempted to run away from his work detail at the Florida Keys Marathon
International Airport Tuesday morning.
Rico Munn Rodriguez was further
charged with escape.
Rodriguez was assigned to cut
grass at the Marathon airport. The Sheriff’s Office sends two or three inmate
trustees to the Marathon airport daily to perform maintenance, which includes
cutting grass and removing garbage among other similar tasks. Rodriguez was
assigned to a Monroe County employee who works at the airport who has taken the
Sheriff’s Office Inmate Supervisor’s Course, which is required for those who
supervise inmate trustees.
Both Rodriguez and the county
employee were on riding lawnmowers and at some point the county employee lost
sight of Rodriguez. The Sheriff’s Office was notified at that time — 9:43 a.m.
Many Middle Keys Deputies and
Detectives quickly swarmed the scene and set up a perimeter around the airport
while others began viewing multiple security camera footage in which Rodriguez
was seen changing out of his jail clothes into a pair of pants and running
toward U.S. 1.
Middle Keys Marine Deputy
Wilfredo Guerra located a shirtless Rodriguez running from 92nd
Street toward the airport rental car parking area. Deputy Guerra quickly placed
Rodriguez in custody.
It was learned Rodriguez found
the pants he changed into at the work shed at the airport.
Rodriguez was previously booked into the jail on Sept. 30
and was scheduled to be released on Feb. 5, 2020 prior to his brief escape
attempt on Tuesday.
The Sheriff’s Office typically sends about 40 to 50 inmate
trustees out into the county daily to do similar tasks to those in which they
are assigned at the Marathon airport. Inmates trustees are not convicted of
violent crimes. They typically have a short time left on their sentences. They
are serving a sentence as opposed to awaiting trial. If they have little or no
disciplinary issues in jail, they may qualify for trustee status, which in turn
may help them acquire gain time, which can shave time of their sentences.
Rodriguez was sent to the Monroe County Detention Center on
Stock Island after he was captured.
Rodriguez will likely lose his trustee status and lose all
his gain time.
Rodriguez was also charged with a felony.
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