Plainview man sentenced to 14 months for role in jail escape
Plainview man sentenced to 14 months for role in jail escape U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix on Thursday told Juan Anthony Cordero that the facts of his case outweighed the lenient punishment both his defense attorney and federal prosecutors requested. However, the judge acknowledged Cordero's role -- after his arrest -- in the capture of the man he helped escape from a South Plains jail and reconsidered the heavier punishment he planned to dole out and sentenced Cordero to 14 months in a federal prison. Cordero, 25, has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since Augu...
Source: lubbockonline.com