A man who walked away from a minimum-security federal prison campus in Englewood in September was arrested in New Mexico this week.
Edward Verdugo, 49, was serving a nine-year sentence at FCI Englewood for dealing drugs and illegal possession of a firearm when prison officials discovered he had walked away from the prison camp the morning of Sept. 5.
Verdugo was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Wednesday, said Juan Miranda, deputy marshal for the district of New Mexico.
Marshals found Verdugo walking near the intersection of Three Crosses Avenue and North Alameda Boulevard, Miranda said. He was arrested without incident and booked into the Dona Ana County Detention Center.
He has not been transferred back to Colorado, Miranda said.
Verdugo was convicted of possession of heroin with intent to distribute, possessing a firearm as a felon, conspiracy to distribute heroin and possession of a gun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime by a federal judge in 2021, according to earlier reporting.
Law enforcement found 17 grams of heroin and two handguns in his home in Las Cruces when they executed a search warrant in 2019.
Before his escape, Verdugo was scheduled to be released from prison in 2027.
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