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NEW ORLEANS — A local teacher, Angela Filardo, 32, has been charged again for her alleged involvement in driving a juvenile escapee from Louisiana to Texas.
According to the source, this new charge in Calcasieu Parish mirrors the previous one filed in New Orleans.
Filardo turned herself into the authorities in Lake Charles on Tuesday after a warrant was issued for her arrest.
She faces an accessory to escape charge and was released from the Calcasieu Parish jail after posting a $100,000 cash bond.
The incident dates back to last October when Filardo allegedly helped Lynell Reynolds, then 18, escape to Texas. The authorities apprehended Reynolds in San Antonio after a manhunt.
Filardo, a teacher who once taught Reynolds from the fifth to eighth grade, is now accused of aiding in this escape.
Court documents indicate that Reynolds had accumulated more than a dozen felony arrests by age 13, including charges of attempted murder and armed robbery.
One of his victims, Darrelle Scott, now 25, has been confined to a wheelchair and lived in fear while Reynolds was at large for nearly three weeks.
Reynolds reportedly traveled from a juvenile halfway house in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to New Orleans and then Slidell before being dropped off in Texas.
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The authorities now allege that Filardo was present in Lake Charles, where she allegedly transported Reynolds to Texas.
Following the escape on September 13, state authorities recorded 97 communications between Filardo and Reynolds.
They tracked phone pings along the route allegedly taken by Filardo as she drove Reynolds to Houston, Texas.