Speculation in Spanish Wells suggests that someone must have assisted in the escape of Cuban arson suspect Avelion Avila Tomas.<\/p>\n
Police took Avila into custody on Saturday night to question him in connection with the fire on a barge that caused hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage.<\/p>\n
But he disappeared from his cell after 11pm on Sunday night sparking a nationwide manhunt for the arson suspect.<\/p>\n
Willard Cunningham Sr, assistant commissioner in charge of the Family Islands, said police from New Providence and Eleuthera continued to search the 110 mile-long island of Eleuthera yesterday looking for the suspect.<\/p>\n
He said an investigation is under way and declined to comment on how Avila may have broken free from jail.<\/p>\n
Former inmates of the Harbour Island jail have told Avila’s relatives that an escape from the cell would be impossible without assistance.<\/p>\n
By MEGAN REYNOLDS Former inmates of the Harbour Island jail have told Avila’s relatives that an escape from the cell would be impossible without assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,59],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTribune Staff Reporter<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"