Authorities are searching for a man convicted of murder who escaped his work-release facility in Alabama during the weekend.
Alabama Department of Corrections officials reported Daniel Miner, 43, missing from his bed Saturday night after an inmate count at the state-run facility in Alpine, a city 40 miles outside of Birmingham, according to ABC News. Officials are not certain how Miner escaped.
Miner had been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole after he was convicted of murder in Marshall County in 1994. In addition to the murder conviction, he received an additional sentence for promoting contraband in Limestone County in 2003, according to inmate records. Miner was in “minimum-out” custody with the Department of Corrections, which means he was not considered to “pose a significant risk to self or others and suitable to be assigned off-property work details without the direct supervision of correctional officers,” according to the Department of Corrections site.
Miner, a white man, is 5 feet, 6 inches and weighs 192 pounds. He has “white power” tattoos and others on his neck, arms, torso and back, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. He was last seen wearing a white state-issued prison uniform.
Anyone with information about Miner or who has information about his whereabouts is asked to contact the Alabama Department of Corrections at 1-800-831-8825 or call 911.
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