Third detainee recaptured after escape from ICE detention center in Newark

Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News on Jun 17, 2025

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NEW YORK — A third detainee who busted out of an immigration detention facility in New Jersey has been recaptured, leaving one more escapee still at large.

FBI Newark confirmed the arrest of Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes on Tuesday but did not offer further details. He was originally arrested in May for aggravated assault, attempt to cause bodily injury, terroristic threats and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes, according to police.

Bautista-Reyes, a Honduran national, was among four men who busted out of Delaney Hall in Newark, a privately owned 1,000-bed facility that has courted controversy in recent months. The men escaped by “kicking through an interior wall” in the dormitory area, said Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was recently arrested for trespassing on the grounds of the same ICE facility.

From there, the group — which also included Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez, Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada and Andres Pineda-Mogollon — fashioned makeshift ropes from bedsheets and climbed out of a third-story window.

U.S. Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., said it came during an “uprising” at the facility, a comment the Department of Homeland Security has denied. In a followup statement issued in response, the department said “contrary to current reporting, there has been no widespread unrest at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility.”

Bautista-Reyes’ recapture comes after Homeland Security announced Sunday that both Sandoval-Lopez from Honduras and Castaneda-Lozada from Colombia were once again in custody.

ICE and FBI officers found Sandoval-Lopez in Passaic, N.J., on Friday. According to USA Today, he resisted arrest and threatened to kill the arresting officers.

Castaneda-Lozada, meanwhile, attempted to turn himself in at the New Jersey State Police Bridgeton Station, but officials refused to take him into custody as the sanctuary policies in place bar them from working with ICE.

The Homeland Security Department said he later surrendered himself to FBI and ICE agents in Millville, N.J., also on Friday.

Pineda-Mogollon remained at large as of Tuesday afternoon, with authorities offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to his recapture. He was arrested in April for petty larceny and arrested last month for residential burglary, conspiracy residential burglary and possession of burglary tools.

All four also face federal charges of escape from the custody of an institution or officer, according to the FBI in Newark.