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FBI Indicts Eric C. Conn Employee For Helping Him Escape

Investigators say a former employee of a missing attorney wanted for fraud helped him escape across the border. The federal indictment accuses Curtis Wyatt of crossing the US-Mexico border at an Arizona pedestrian checkpoint this past April to check out security measures for his boss, Eric Conn. Within days he did the same thing at a New Mexico checkpoint.

The indictment, which was unsealed Monday says Wyatt paid $3,435 in cash for a 2002 Dodge Ram pickup truck and had the seller register the vehicle in Montana under the name Disability Services LLC. That was the truck believed to have been used by Conn to flee the country.

In May, Wyatt also accepted an on-line purchase by Conn for a Faraday bag in May, which blocked the signals from Conn’s ankle monitoring device. Wyatt allegedly also tested the device through a phone app. He delivered the truck and the Faraday bag to Conn around June first and opened a bank account for him after his escape.

Wyatt faces seven federal charges including Aiding and Abetting and Assisting Escape. Conn is charged with Conspiracy to Escape, Escape, Conspiracy to Fail to Appear and Failure to Appear. A $20,000 reward is being offered by the FBI for information leading to Conn’s arrest.