Pet Cemetery Owners Allegedly Help Sex Offender Escape
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - A registered sex offender's doomed escape from a halfway house was helped along by the owner and operators of a Fort Worth pet cemetery where investigators today found the remnants of a drug operation.
In a bizarre getaway plot, Brent Allen Jozefkowicz was able to free himself from an ankle monitor and flee on a motorcycle provided to him by local businessman Jon Ryan Evans, sources tell CBS 11 News.
Jozefkowicz was able to make it as far as South Carolina, but somewhere along the way he fell on his motorcycle and broke his leg, according to multiple sources.
They say he then killed himself on the sands of Myrtle Beach, leaving a suicide note thanking the people who helped him escape.
The note also asked that his getaway tools - including the motorcycle - be returned to his escape accomplices.
That led to Evans, who owns several North Texas businesses, including the pet cemetery just inside Loop 820, off of Highway 287, the law enforcement sources say.
State police today executed a search warrant at the cemetery, and discovered a large walk-in vault in a pet crematorium, with the tell-tale signs of a marijuana-growing operation.
Found inside the vault included marijuana residue, as well as sophisticated lighting and water sprinkling systems, sources tell CBS 11.
Evans was charged with a felony of hindering an arrest. A man and woman were also arrested, but had not been charged as of late today, according to court records.
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