Chesterfield County, VA _ A second arrest has been made as the investigation and search for two escapees from the Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center continues. The Virginia State Police and United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force are following up on multiple leads concerning the whereabouts of Jabar A. Taylor, 20, of Washington, D.C., and Rashad E. Williams, 18, of Spotsylvania County. Both escaped from the Bon Air facility in Chesterfield County early Monday July 13. Anyone with information related to either male is encouraged to call 911 or the Virginia State Police at 804-553-3445. At this stage of the investigation, it is still believed both individuals have left the state of Virginia.
Wednesday morning, July 15, the Virginia State Police arrested Darren Briggs, 42, of Lawrenceville, Va., on one felony count of providing a cell phone to a prisoner (Code of VA 18.2-431.1). He was taken into custody without incident. Briggs, a Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice employee who worked at the Bon Air facility, is being held at the Chesterfield County Jail.
On Tuesday July 14, Destiny L. Harris, 23, of Chesterfield County, was taken into custody without incident by the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force on two counts of aiding with the escape of a juvenile. Harris, a Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice employee who worked at the Bon Air facility, is being held at the Chesterfield County Jail.
According to the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), Taylor was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and aggravated malicious assault, and Williams convicted of malicious wounding and robbery. Both were committed by courts in the Fredericksburg area, and both are due to transfer to an adult Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) facility upon reaching their 21st birthdays.