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Detainee escapes from Pruncul Penitentiary


https://www.ipn.md/en/detainee-escapes-from-pruncul-penitentiary-7967_1021822.html

A prisoner left arbitrarily Pruncul Penitentiary No. 9 in the morning of August 5. Employees of the penitentiary system are taking measures to catch him, IPN reports.

The Department of Penitentiary Institutions said the man enjoyed the right to leave the penitentiary without escort or an accompanying person. According to preliminary reports, he went to the place of his wife in Sipoteni village of Calarasi district, whom he suspected of infidelity. When the men reached the destination, he had a quarrel with his wife and employees of the Calarasi Police Inspectorate were called to intervene.

At the Inspectorate’s head office, after failing to come to terms with his wife, the man got onto the woman’s car and drove away. He is being searched for.

The fugitive is 36. He was sentenced to six years in jail for theft. He now risks being sentenced additionally to two years behind bars for escape.