Nearly three years after the murder of Wake County Deputy Ned Byrd, his family is one step closer to seeking justice.
One of the men accused in his murder escaped custody in 2023 and was arrested in his home country of Mexico days later. He just pleaded guilty to that escape charge in a federal courthouse in Greensboro on Tuesday night.
It took about two years to get 28-year-old Alder Marin-Sotelo back to the United States after he escaped from a Virginia jail where he had been held in connection with Byrd’s death…