Escapee’s accused accomplices now at eight
Woman charged after Dayonte Resiles’ stunt
Murder suspect Dayonte Resiles’ network of alleged accomplices has grown by yet another woman who authorities say helped the courthouse escapee stay off the radar.
Armonie Frankson21, is the eighth person charged in connection with Resiles’ escape. She went before Broward Judge Michael Davis for her first-appearance court hearing Wednesday.
Jail records show she was arrested Tuesday and is being held on $150,000 bond on charges of aiding an escape and accessory after the fact.
According to an arrest warrant, surveillance video shows Franks ondriving Resiles away from the Oakland Park Flea Mar----
ket at 3161W. Oakland Park Blvd., shortly after 10:20 a.m. — less than an hour after Resiles fled Courtroom4810.
Frankson-Dennis’ attorney, Joshua Rydell, sa id he was present during his client’s interview with detectives and she “tried to do nothing amongst tears and shock[but] be helpful.” According to Rydell, she told detectives she drove Resiles10 blocks to the flea market, allowed him to use her phone and expressed shock at seeing him.
The encounter was a “25-minute interaction,” he said.
“The facts do remain the same that she was with him, but she immediately came forward with that fact, gave law enforcement her motor vehicle, gave law enforcement her telephone, gave law enforcement everything she could do,” Rydell said. “She was as upfront as she could be about all this.”
Frankson-Dennis, of Sunrise, has no prior criminal record, works and goes to school, Rydell said.
Although Frankson-Dennis’ attorney emphasized her cooperation with detectives, the judge said her story was not truthful and “the video shows different.”
According to the arrest warrant, Frankson-Dennis and Resiles linked up the day of his escape after he called her from an unknown number within minutes of dashing out of the courtroom. She told detectives that Resiles instructed her to pick up money from an undisclosed apartment complex to pay for his jail phone account. When she got there, it was Resiles who appeared and got into her white 2012 Nissan Sentra. She took him to the flea market, as he’d requested, she said.
Frankson-Dennis told authorities that when she got to the flea market she realized “something was not right” and refused to take him anywhere else, so he instead left in a black car, the arrest warrant said.
But investigators say surveillance footage shows Resiles return to Frankson-Dennis’ car — not the black vehicle— after leaving the flea market. The two are seen leaving in her car toward Northwest 31st Avenue and out of camera range, the arrest warrant said.
Given the video evidence, the judge surmised Frankson-Dennis was “an active participant in this escape.”
“I find this young lady’s attempt to seek out lawenforcement to be self-serving; she got caught in a lie,” he said.
If she is able to post bond, Davis prohibited Frankson-Dennis from obtaining a passport and restricted her to house arrest with a GPS ankle monitor.
Resiles, who is accused of murdering a Davie woman in 2014, fled the courthouse July15 andwas on the lam for about six days before being captured at a motel in West Palm Beach.
In addition to Frankson-Dennis, seven others are accused of helping Resiles escape and remain on the loose.