NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – An inmate who escaped from a floating jail in the Bronx early Saturday morning was taken back into custody after a manhunt, according to police.
David Mordukhaev, 30, was nabbed later on Saturday after escaping custody earlier in the day, police said around 6 p.m.
Mordukhaev was discovered missing at a housing area at the Vernon C. Bain Center in Hunts Point around 4:35 a.m. The facility, which is nicknamed "The Boat," was placed on lockdown amid the manhunt.
“Our Correction Intelligence Bureau immediately began working around-the-clock with our law enforcement partners at multiple levels,” said Peter Thorne, deputy commissioner of public information for the city Department of Correction, in a statement before Mordukhaev's capture.
Sources told the New York Post that authorities believe Mordukhaev slipped through a cell window at the facility, which is docked off of Halleck Street in a mostly industrial area near the Fulton Fish Market.
“No escape from our facilities is ever acceptable and we are taking every step to locate and return this individual to custody,” Thorne said in his statement. “A thorough investigation into how this occurred is underway to ensure that this does not happen again, and disciplinary action, if warranted, will be taken at the conclusion of the investigation.”
According to a 2013 press release from the Department of Justice, Mordukhaev was sentenced to 65 months in prison “for his involvement in a plot to burglarize a pharmacy in Marlboro Township, N.J., and sell the stolen narcotics for cash.”
The Daily News reported that he was arrested again last summer for a robbery in Brooklyn in which he allegedly impersonated a cop. He was reportedly being held on $1.5 million bail.