The Associated Press
VERSAILLES, Ky. — Authorities in central Kentucky are searching for a federal inmate from Massachusetts who escaped a prisoner transport van by kicking out the door.
Versailles (ver-SAYLZ) police spokesman Pat Melton said a manhunt was still under way for 32-year-old Derek A. Capozzi.
In 2005, Capozzi was identified by federal prosecutors as a member of a Mafia-affiliated drug gang that killed a 19-year-old woman suspected of cooperating with investigators.
Capozzi was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for helping to dismember and hide the body. Melton said he also was serving time for trying to kill a correctional officer.
Melton said recent sightings put Capozzi still in the area where he made his escape.