Escaped prisoner facing new charges in Salem
By Kate Augusto, Globe Correspondent
A prisoner who escaped from shackles outside Salem Superior Court earlier this week is expected to be arraigned today on new charges after he spent almost two days on the lam.
Police captured Miguel Angel Caraballo Thursday night at a home in Dracut after investigators tracked his whereabouts by interviewing witnesses and listening to recordings of phone calls he made while behind bars. Two women -- Joanna Aguire and Yessina Silva -- will also be arraigned today on charges of aiding and abetting Caraballo's escape, said Paul Fleming, a spokesman for the Essex County sheriff's office. Fleming did not describe specifically what Aguire and Silva allegedly did to help Caraballo.
Caraballo, 37, was being transported to court by sheriff's deputies Wednesday morning for a pretrial hearing stemming from a home invasion in Haverhill Dec. 21 in which authorities said Caraballo pistol-whipped a man with a .45-caliber handgun. Caraballo escaped as he was being unloaded from a sheriff's van with 11 other prisoners at the back of the Salem Superior Court. He broke free from his shackles and fled with the help of a woman who was waiting in a stolen getaway car, which was later found abandoned.
Caraballo was arrested at 10:45 p.m. Thursday by a team of law enforcement officers that included Dracut and Lowell police and sheriff's deputies. When police arrived at the home on Stanton Street in Dracut, Caraballo ran out the back door. After a short foot chase, police apprehended Caraballo on Pemberton Street, said Chief David Chartrand of the Dracut Police Department.
