Prosecutors say a man charged with killing a sheriff’s deputy and wounding another while escaping from authorities in Council Bluffs will plead guilty.
The Pottawattamie County Attorney’s Office says an attorney for Wesley Correa-Carmenaty informed them of the change Wednesday.
A news release from the prosecutor’s office says no plea bargain was made and that Correa-Carmenaty still faces charges of murder, attempted murder, escape, kidnapping and other crimes.
Correa-Carmenaty’s trial had been set to begin Tuesday.
Instead, a change of plea hearing will take place Tuesday morning in Council Bluffs.
Authorities say Correa-Carmenaty had been sentenced May 1st to 45 years in prison in an unrelated murder case when he grabbed one of the deputies’ guns while being transferred to the county jail.
He shot them both and used the jail van to escape.
He was recaptured that day in Omaha, Nebraska, after carjacking a woman at gunpoint.
Since then Correa-Carmenaty has been held in the Woodbury County Jail.
