John Manchec, a 78-year-old French multimillionaire, allegedly planned to escape a Florida jail and flee on his private jet to France, where he owns a castle.
Authorities say the 78-year-old businessman planned to use the off-site medical procedure to escape the Indian River County jail in Vero Beach, Fla., flee to his native France and avoid being prosecuted. After investigators unraveled the alleged plot, Manchec was charged with attempted escape.
In August 2016, he asked a judge to let him travel to France for business, a request that was denied, the affidavit states. Manchec, who has U.S. and French citizenship, allegedly went to France anyway, and authorities there refused to extradite him on the child pornography charges.. “‘That’s not a serious enough crime.’”But Manchec “made the mistake” of traveling to the Dominican Republic, where authorities would extradite him to the United States, the sheriff said.
“He could feel the weight of the trial coming,” Flowers said. “It was imminent. He knew he was going to die in prison as a result of those charges, and this was his last-ditch effort.”In April, Flowers’s investigators got an outside tip about Manchec plotting an escape, Flowers said at the news conference.
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