A Newark, NJ man arrested in February 2021 on the Wind Creek Bethlehem On line casino for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill his ex and her brother was by chance launched from a Pennsylvania jail six months later.
Dominic Escalera, above, was arrested on the Wind Creek Bethlehem in February 2021 as a suspect in a murder-for-hire scheme. He believed he was establishing an alibi whereas a hitman was murdering his ex and her brother. (Picture: Essex County Correctional Institute)
That’s in response to a gross negligence lawsuit introduced by the ex-girlfriend of Dominic Escalera, 39, after he allegedly attacked and terrorized her in her Allentown, Penn., residence throughout his surprising bout of freedom.
Escalera was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2021 on two counts of hiring a hitman and one depend of possessing a firearm as a felon.
Prosecutors allege Escalera agreed to pay a person in money and unlawful medicine for the killings, and offered him with a weapon. He then headed to the Wind Creek Bethlehem to ascertain an alibi whereas he believed the hit was being carried out, in response to prosecutors.
However “the hitman” turned out to be an undercover Pennsylvania State trooper, and Escalera was arrested contained in the on line casino.
Terrifying Assault
Escalera faces as much as 30 years in jail on the fees. On Aug. 18, 2021, a federal decide denied him bail, figuring out he was a flight danger and a hazard to the group, in response to courtroom filings. He was ordered to stay incarcerated on the Lehigh County Jail all through the pretrial proceedings.
But, inexplicably, he was launched two days later, and he headed straight to his ex-girlfriend’s home.
“I instructed you I’d get out,” he instructed her, chillingly, when she discovered him standing in her kitchen, in response to the lawsuit.
For the following two hours, Escalera proceeded to assault the plaintiff, whereas threatening to kill her and her household, in response to the lawsuit.
Luckily, she managed to ship covert texts alerting authorities to her predicament, which led to Escalera’s rearrest.
‘Worst Nightmare’
The sufferer’s swimsuit names Lehigh County, jail warden Kyle Russell, and the county’s corrections director, Janine Donate. The plaintiff claims she suffers from post-traumatic stress dysfunction due to her ordeal and lives in fixed worry that Escalera will reappear in her residence and try and kill her.
It’s actually any sufferer’s worst nightmare,” the plaintiff’s lawyer, Josh Karoly, instructed The Washington Put up. “The crime that this gentleman was accused of committing is the worst doable offense to be launched from for the girl who was the goal of his alleged plot.
“It’s heroic how she was in a position to take care of the state of affairs and get him again into custody, however she ought to’ve by no means been in that place within the first place,” he added.
