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Date Posted: 16:22:32 04/15/10 Thu
Author: JO JO
Subject: REALLY?


Former Mass. gangster escapes prison van in Kentucky
EmailE-mail|Link|Comments (0) April 15, 2010 04:06 PM

By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff

A former Beverly man who was convicted of playing a role in the grisly murder of a young woman in 1996 has escaped from federal custody by kicking out the door of a van during a prisoner transport in central Kentucky.

Authorities in Massachusetts have been alerted of the escape of Derek A. Capozzi, according to a spokesman for the US Marshals Service in Boston.

A multidepartment manhunt is under way in Kentucky for the fugitive, said Versailles, Ky., police spokesman Pat Melton.

Melton said Capozzi was being taken to Lexington, Ky., on Thursday to be flown to another facility out of state. He kicked open the door of the corrections van as it was turning onto the Kentucky 33 exit off the Bluegrass Parkway.

Capozzi, 37, was slated to be released from prison in 2046.

Capozzi was convicted by a federal jury in 2005 of helping to cover up the killing of Aislin Silva, 19, of Medford. Silva was killed by a Mafia-connected gang of drug dealers and thieves. Capozzi helped to hack her body into small pieces and bury them in an unknown North Shore grave after his fellow mobsters strangled her.

He was convicted of joining the conspiracy to kill Silva, being an accessory after the fact, and conspiring to commit robbery. He was sentenced in August 2005 to 23 years in prison. He was already serving another 30-year sentence for extortion.

Material from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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