DORAL, Fla. – Police officers from several agencies were searching for a 32-year-old fugitive on Friday and Saturday in Miami-Dade County.
A prisoner escaped, according to Cmdr. Alicia Neal, a spokeswoman for the Doral Police Department. Detective Angel Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, identified the Florida Department of Corrections inmate as Joshua Thompson, who was on a work release program and didn’t return to the facility when he was supposed to.
Records show Thompson had been in prison since Aug. 2, 2021, after he was sentenced to six years in prison over crimes he had committed in 2017. The list of convictions on the FDOC file included burglaries, grand theft, traffic in stolen property, and criminal mischief.
Related story: Police: Miami-Dade escapee was low-security inmate, poses no threat to public
Thompson escaped on foot at about 5 p.m. from the Miami North Community Release Center, at 7090 NW 41 St., and the corrections counselors believed Thompson was running to the area of Northwest 85 Avenue and 33 Street, according to Rodriguez.
Police officers reported Thompson was in the back of a building there, so with they set up a perimeter with the help of Doral police officers, MDPD dogs, and a helicopter, but Thompson managed to escape, according to Rodriguez.
Thompson, who also has a criminal record in Broward County, is also known as Yeshua Jericho Banner, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.
Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call 911 or Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 or the Florida Department of Corrections at 850-922-6867.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.
Location