Inmate who aided Clallam Bay prison escape attempt has recent bride

  • KOMO News
  • Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:01am
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CLALLAM BAY — A woman married to a prison inmate who stands to be accused of aiding an attempted Clallam Bay prison escape attempt last month said she knew nothing of an escape plot.

Quynh Maldonado, who said she fell in love with Dominick Maldonado — convicted of a 2005 Tacoma Mall shooting rampage that wounded seven people — while seeing him in television news footage, said he might have wanted to escape to be free with her.

“I guess from what I’ve heard, he just wanted to see me,” she said in an interview with KOMO-TV reporter Tracy Vedder that aired Monday.

Maldonado, who has since been moved to a maximum-security prison near Aberdeen, joined convicted murderer Kevin Newland in trying to escape from Clallam Bay Corrections Center on June 29 by taking a corrections officer hostage with scissors in the prison industries area while Newland used a forklift to ram the perimeter fences, prison officials said.

Another corrections officer shot and killed Newland, 25, after the inmate rammed the outer fence with the forklift.

KOMO is a news partner of the Peninsula Daily News. To see video of the interview and its text, go to http://www.komonews.com/news/local/125313028.html .

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