A convicted murderer who was accidentally released from a Georgia prison was recaptured by the American Marshalls to more than 400 miles away in Florida after two weeks in the race, authorities announced.
Kathan Guzman, 22, who fulfills life imprisonment for strangling his girlfriend until death, caught Friday morning after the officials responsible for enforcing the law discovered that the fugitive hid his mother’s house in Oceee, said the United States sheriff service to ABC News.
“Today we tracked and put it in custody,” said Michael Sonethavilay, deputy director of the Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Force Force agencies.
Sonethavilay explained that his Division of Atlanta “Cavó” and discovered vital information that pointed them out to the state of Sunshine, where they collaborated with local officials to locate Guzmán.
Guzman, who was only five months in his mandate in the prison, was released from Clayton County prison in Jonesboro on March 27 in what the Clayton County Sheriff, Levon Allen, called a training failure and the jailers who did not pay attention to the murderer’s archive.
He was given his life imprisonment in October 2024 after admitting to murder Delia Grayson, 19, who was found dead in a bathtub in August 2022, WSB-TV reported.
Everyone said the jailers released Guzmán after they reviewed a judicial document that showed a motion not to process about a position of necrophilia that did not stay in the trial, and then could not detect their murder and assault for condemnation for strangulation.
Clayton County District Prosecutor, Tasha Mosley, said her office was notified on Tuesday afternoon that the murderer was released by mistake, which caused a large -scale human hunt.
“The entire appropriate paperwork was sent to appropriate people,” Moseley told the constitution of the Atlantia Journal.
“We are so disappointed and angry as everyone else.”
The error of the prison also left Christina Grayson, the victim’s mother, living with fear for her safety and that of the public. Grayson lives in Kissimmee, about 26 miles where Guzmán was captured, WSB reported.
Grayson told him to the exit that he felt he was “in prison” while Guzmán was loose, constantly looking around his shoulder with fear of appearing. Now that she has been in custody again, the shaking mother said she is released on her legs.
“He is where he should be,” he said before questioning if this was a unique mistake.
He also condemned the Sheriff’s office for not realizing that Guzman was released before.
Guzman, while enjoying his involuntary freedom, told someone who believed that his liberation was the result of a powerful power and that “God is good,” Allen told The Outlet.
An investigation is now underway in the lack of prison failures.
“The cause of his release is under investigation, and disciplinary actions are pending,” he said in a statement on Friday, ABC reported.
“Once the investigation is completed, it can result in the completion of the employees within the Clayton County Sheriff’s office.”
Guzman is arrested in Orange County prison while waiting for extradition, as shown in prison records.
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