Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022 | 11:12 p.m.
Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, an inmate who escaped a Nevada correctional center, was back in custody Wednesday night, according to Metro Police.
Duarte-Herrera, 42, was located in the 1400 block of North Eastern Avenue after Metro Police received information around 9:30 p.m. that a person matching his description was in the area, they stated in a release.
The inmate had been discovered missing from the Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs on Tuesday, and the state Department of Corrections eventually determined he had escaped Friday.
Duarte-Herrera has been serving a life sentence for murder with the use of a deadly weapon since 2010. He and co-defendant Omar Rueda-Denvers were found guilty of detonating a pipe bomb on the roof of the Luxor parking garage May 7, 2007, killing 24-year-old Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio.
Rueda-Denvers and Duarte-Herrara hid the bomb, which had a motion-activated trigger, in a 24-ounce Styrofoam coffee cup they placed on Dorantes Antonio’s car.
The manhunt for Duarte-Herrera since he was found missing Tuesday morning involved law enforcement at the local, state and federal levels. Federal authorities had offered a combined $30,000 reward for information leading to his capture, according to a tweet from Metro Police.
There is no further information at this time, Metro Police said.
