The four men who escaped from Delaney Hall in Newark on Thursday used mattresses and bed sheets to help make their escape, officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Authorities said the men broke through a second-story aluminum wall and dropped mattresses to break their fall after they jumped.
They also used bed sheets to cover barbed wire to climb over the fence, officials said.
The details were released as New Jersey U.S. Attorney, Alina Habba announced four new charges against the men Tuesday related to the escape.
Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes, 20, and Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez, 22, both originally from Honduras, and Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada, 18, and Andrew Felipe Pineda-Mogollon, 25, both from Colombia were charged with escaping from the custody of an institution or officer.
Three of the four men have been apprehended at different locations around the state since Friday. All three men have appeared in federal court, officials said.
Pineda-Mogollon remains at large and the FBI has issued a $25,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
Baustista-Reyes was arrested Tuesday morning while the other two were recaptured over the weekend, according to authorities.
“In addition to arresting Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez and Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada, DHS has also captured a third escapee from Delaney Hall, Franklin Bautista-Reyes, a Honduran national,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Tuesday.
Bautista-Reyes was arrested Tuesday morning, according to McLaughlin’s statement. No other details on his arrest were provided by officials.
Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada surrendered to FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Sunday, Department of Homeland Security officials said Monday.
Castaneda-Lozada attempted to turn himself in to a New Jersey State Police station in Bridgeton Friday, but was denied based on the city’s sanctuary policies, DHS officials said in a statement.
He later surrendered to FBI and ICE agents in Millville on Sunday, officials said.
New Jersey State Police did not immediately return a request for comment.
Castaneda-Lozada was being held at the Salem County Jail, but has since been moved, records show, but do not list the new location.
Sandoval-Lopez was arrested by ICE, FBI and Passaic police on Friday and threatened and kicked officers, officials said. He is being held at the Essex County Jail, court records show.
After the detainees escaped Thursday night, U.S. Senator Andy Kim and U.S. Rep. Robert Menendez Jr. met with officials at Delaney Hall on Friday and were told that inmates would be moved from the facility.
The escapes, and complaints about conditions, appear to have sparked the move this week of hundreds of people being held there.
A lawyer for an Egyptian man who was being held at Delaney Hall told NJ Advance Media that his client was moved to a facility in Louisiana.
Regular protests have been staged outside Delaney Hall since it reopened under the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
The GEO Group, a private company, was awarded a 15-year, $1 billion government contract to operate the facility in February.
GEO Group declined to comment further on Thursday’s incident beyond the statement the initial statement it issued.
There have been other incidents at the facility.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested outside the facility in May and charged with trespassing, but the charges were quickly dropped.
Federal officials later filed felony assault charges against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, a Democrat representing New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District, who was with Baraka in May when he was arrested.
Attorneys for the men did not immediately return requests for comment.
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