Name: Local, state, federal authorities search for suspect in Ned Byrd murder who escaped Va. jail
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Description: Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo, 26, is one of two men to escape Piedmont Regional Jail on April 30, 2023. He and his brother, Arturo Marin-Sotelo, are charged with murdering Wake County Deputy Ned Byrd in August 2022.

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Alder Alfonso Marin-Sotelo, 26, is one of two men to escape Piedmont Regional Jail on April 30, 2023. He and his brother, Arturo Marin-Sotelo, are charged with murdering Wake County Deputy Ned Byrd in August 2022.

<p>WE'LL WAIT TO LEARN WHO THEY WILL PLAY NEXT. AND THAT BREAKING NEWS THIS NOON, A PRISONER CHARGED WITH MURDER IN THE DEATH OF WAKE COUNTY DEPUTY IS ONE OF 2 INMATES WHO ESCAPED FROM A JAIL IN VIRGINIA. GOOD AFTERNOON TO YOU. I'M JEFF HOGAN MICHELLE MACKONOCHIE IN FOR RENEE CHOU. THANKS FOR JOINING US. &gt;&gt; ALDER MARINE SOTELO AND ANOTHER MAN ESCAPES FROM THE PIEDMONT REGIONAL JAIL IN RURAL VIRGINIA EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THE FACILITY IS LOCATED BETWEEN RICHMOND AND LYNCHBURG. DORIS JOE FISHER IS LIVE OUTSIDE THE WAKE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE PIECING TOGETHER THE TIMELINE. JOE. WHAT WE'RE LEARNING RIGHT NOW THAT THESE 2 INMATE ESCAPES HAPPENED ABOUT 22 HOURS APART. &gt;&gt; THE FIRST ONE AROUND 1 O'CLOCK YESTERDAY MORNING. THE SECOND AROUND 11, 30 LAST NIGHT FROM THAT JAIL IN FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA. BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL 4 O'CLOCK. THIS MORNING THAT AUTHORITIES RECOGNIZE THAT THOSE 2 MEN WERE MISSING FROM THE FACILITY. THIS HAPPENED AT THE PIEDMONT REGIONAL JAIL. AGAIN, THIS IS 140 MILES NORTH OF RALEIGH, ALDER MARINE SOTELO WAS BEING HELD THERE FACING FEDERAL WEAPONS CHARGES AND ALSO FACING A MURDER CHARGE IN THE DEATH OF WAKE COUNTY DEPUTY NED BYRD WHO WAS KILLED IN AUGUST. THE SECOND ESCAPEE IS BRUCE CALLAHAN, CONVICTED OF FEDERAL DRUG CHARGES. AUTHORITIES SAY MARINE SOTELO IS WEARING A GRAY SWEATSHIRT AND SWEATPANTS CALLAHAN IS WEARING BLUE SHORTS. NO SHIRT AND WHITE TENNIS SHOES. THE PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAYS THIS MORNING THEY LAUNCHED A SEARCH AGAIN RIGHT AFTER 4 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING USING HELICOPTERS, CANINES AND OFFICERS THERE ON THE GROUND SO FAR, NO 6 S THE MEN ARE STILL ON THE RUN. DEPUTY NED BYRD WAS ON PATROL IN AUGUST IN WAKE COUNTY WHEN HE NOTICED A SUSPICIOUS TRUCK AND PULLED OVER TO INVESTIGATE HE WAS FOUND DEAD OUTSIDE OF THIS SQUAD CAR SHOT 4 TIMES MARINES. THAT HELLOS BROTHER ARTURO MARIN-SOTELO IS ALSO CHARGED WITH MURDER. BUT NOT INVOLVED IN THE ESCAPE. I DID GET A CHANCE TO TALK WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE PIEDMONT REGIONAL JAIL THIS MORNING. HE TELLS ME THAT BOTH OF THESE ESCAPED INMATES WERE STAYING IN THE SAME HOUSING UNIT. HE DESCRIBED IT AS A BIG DORM STYLE UNIT THERE WITH 70 TO 80 OTHER INMATES AND RIGHT NOW IT'S BELIEVED THAT THOSE 2 INMATES MANAGED TO MANIPULATE THE LOCKING SYSTEM ON A REAR EXIT DOOR. AND THAT IS HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE AND GET BOTH OF THOSE MEN ARE STILL ON THE RUN. AUTHORITIES UP IN FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA ARE ASKING THE PUBLIC TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. OF COURSE, ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT EITHER OF THESE 2 GENTLEMEN IS BEING ASKED TO CALL 9-1-1. BACK TO YOU. SHOCKING DETAILS GOT OUT AT SEPARATE TIMES. NOBODY RECOGNIZED EITHER THEM LEAVING. &gt;&gt; JOE FISHER LIVE FOR US THIS NOON. THANKS FOR THAT UPDATE. &gt;&gt; AND HAPPENING NOW, THE WRAL LIVE CENTER. WE HAVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SECOND AS THAT SECOND ESCAPEE FROM THAT FEDERAL PRISON THAT JOE JUST MENTIONED THIS. A GUY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE. 44 YEAR-OLD LOOSE CALLAHAN. HE GOES BY THE NICKNAME OF HAAS. HE, TOO, IS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. LIKE WE'RE GOING TO HE WAS SERVING TIME ON MULTIPLE FEDERAL DRUG CHARGES, INCLUDING TRAFFICKING, FENTANYL AND COCAINE. ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORITIES THERE IN VIRGINIA, CALLAHAN ESCAPED AROUND 11 30 LAST NIGHT ABOUT 22 HOURS AFTER MOVING TO TELL US GAVE BOTH MEN ARE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS AND YOU ASKED TO CALL AUTHORITIES IF YOU SEE THEM TO</p>

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Local, state, federal authorities search for suspect in Ned Byrd murder who escaped Va. jail

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

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RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

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