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Reward increases for tips on escaped inmate
Associated Press
Published December 25, 2005
MIAMI - Authorities on Saturday increased the reward for tips leading to the arrest of a man accused of serial rape who escaped from jail last week by rappelling down the building on bed sheets.
The reward for Reynaldo E. Rapalo was increased by $5,000 to $36,000, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported. Rapalo is accused of sexually assaulting seven girls and women and attacking four others in the Little Havana area in 2002 and 2003. He was awaiting a February trial that could have sent him to prison for life.
Rapalo and another inmate, Idanio Bravo, climbed through a vent in the 7-foot ceiling of Bravo's single-man cell on the sixth floor Tuesday and made it to the roof on the same level, officials said.
The vent, which connects to the roof, was supposed to be locked, but had been pried open.
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