FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –
An eighth person has been arrested in connection with a murder suspect's escape from the Broward County courthouse.
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Armonie Frankson-Dennis appeared in bond court Wednesday morning. She faces charges of escape and accessory after the fact in the July 15 escape of Dayonte Resiles.
According to a Broward Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit, Frankson-Dennis drove Resiles to the Oakland Park Flea Market in the days after his escape.
The arrest affidavit said telephone records show that Frankson-Dennis also communicated with Resiles' getaway driver, Winston Russell Jr., six times -- five incoming calls and one outgoing text message -- in the moments immediately after his escape.
Resiles, 21, is charged with first-degree murder in the 2014 death of Jill Halliburton Su, whose body was found in a bathtub in her Davie home.
Seven others -- Russell, LaQuay Stern, twins Kretron Barnes and TreVon Barnes, Francine Mesadieu, Paige Jackson and Walter Hart -- have been arrested in connection with the escape.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said the twins sat in the courtroom while Russell and Stern waited in Stern's silver BMW on the north side of the courthouse. He said one of the twins coughed into a cellphone as Resiles made his getaway, signaling to Stern and Russell that Resiles was on his way to the car.
According to an arrest affidavit, Mesadieu gave Resiles a wig, eye color-changing contacts and clothing in an effort to help him conceal his identity.
Another arrest affidavit said that Paige Jackson, 18, spoke to Resiles on the telephone at least 15 times between July 4-7. Detectives believe she set up a series of three-way calls in order to help Resiles plan his escape.
Hart, who is an inmate in the county jail, is also accused of helping Resiles get out of his shackles before his escape.
Frankson-Dennis, 21, was being held on $150,000 bond.
