A convicted killer was arrested in Florida two weeks after he was mistakenly released from a Georgia jail, the U.S. Marshals Service announced Friday.
Kathan Guzman, 22, was apprehended without incident at his mother’s Ocoee home by the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force.
The escapee was booked into the Orlando County Jail on a fugitive-from-justice charge.
Last year, Guzman was found guilty of strangling his 19-year-old girlfriend, Dalila Grayson, to death.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Clayton County Sheriff Levon Allen said Guzman was “released in error” on March 27 while awaiting transfer to the Georgia Department of Corrections, where he was set to serve his sentence.
“The cause of the release is under investigation, and disciplinary actions are pending,” Allen said Friday.
“Once the investigation is complete, it may result in the termination of employees within the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office.”
