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The Global Chronicle

Security footage shows Oregon murderer Edi Villalobos ahead of trial

Author

Daniel Moore

Updated on January 23, 2026

Observation film shows Oregon murder suspect Edi Villalobos, blamed for killing 33-year-old Artemio Guzman-Olvera, escaping from the court at the Washington Province Town hall during the jury choice cycle on February 27, 2023.

The security film, which started with two officials accompanying a limited Edi Villalobos into the court, finished with Edi’s break when the officials eliminated his restrictions subsequent to showing up inside the court.

In the clasp Villalobos, who is seen wearing a blue shirt and dark pants, should be visible being taken into the court in no time before an official eliminates his shackles. The suspect is then seen sitting down, while the official is spotted conversing with the other official alongside him.

The official then moves to free the restrictions on Edi’s legs and moves in an opposite direction from the suspect, who is as yet situated in a seat. Minutes after the fact, Villalobos geniuses past the court entryways while officials seek after him by walking.

The occurrence was caught by different cameras encompassing the town hall and showed Villalobos running beyond a stunned lady prior to leaving the primary entry of the town hall, with the officials running intently behind him.

According to various reports, Edi Villalobos effectively figured out how to sidestep the officials pursuing him by walking in the town hall. Following his getaway, policing looking for the suspect utilizing canines and robots, and a few officials were dispatched to find his whereabouts.

Villalobos, who was looked a brief time up some other time, was purportedly found concealing under a sweeping inside a vacant condo in a private complex after an occupant cautioned the specialists about a man endeavoring to break into the house.

Villalobos is supposedly blamed for killing 33-year-old Artemio Guzman-Olvera and fundamentally cutting a second man in 2021.

In a public interview, Washington Province Sheriff’s Correspondences Sgt. Danny DiPietro remarked on the occurrence and made sense of that concurring for Oregon State regulation, all charged people to be ought to be unshackled while before a jury.

This is done so the jury’s choice will be liberated from any predisposition that could somehow or another come from the optics of a suspect handcuffed:
“Those were eliminated due to Oregon regulation. At the point when somebody’s in a preliminary, and any of the procedures that accompany it, including jury choice, Oregon regulation expects us to eliminate those limitations, and that’s what we did, clearly.”
DiPietro added that it is indistinct assuming Edi Villalobos will be controlled during future court procedures because of his getaway endeavor. He likewise noticed that a choice will be made by the specialists regulating the case:

“I envision they will push for the conference to permit limitations to be on during his preliminary when it comes up. Yet, that is for the courts, the DA’s office, and court security to go through that interaction.”
According to the New York Post, Villalobos, who was having to deal with a few penalties, including second-degree murder and unlawful utilization of a weapon for the 2021 episode, will purportedly have to deal with extra penalties for the departure endeavor, remembering escape for the second-degree and a thievery charge.