THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, July 30, 1996 TAG: 9607300246
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B9 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Metro Briefs
DATELINE: SUFFOLK LENGTH: 24 lines
A 20-year-old man who had been sentenced to perform community service for threatening to bomb a building escaped from a Western Tidewater Regional Jail van carrying him to his work site Saturday.
Police said Cedric M. Dildy, of the 500 block of Ashley Ave., got out while the van was stopped for a traffic light in the 300 block of Carolina Road, about 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Dildy opened the door and said, ``See you later. I am going home,'' said police spokesman Mike Simpkins.
Neither Dildy nor the other members of the road crew was a jail inmate, said Jack Dewan, jail superintendent. They reported for the work detail on Saturday mornings and checked out Saturday afternoons, he said.
Dildy was arrested June 2, 1995, and charged in connection with a telephone bomb threat that forced an evacuation of the Municipal Building and disrupted work there for about 90 minutes. The building houses the Police Department, Circuit Court and municipal offices.
KEYWORDS: ESCAPED PRISONER BOMB THREAT by CNB