The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently released a report on a Lucchese mobster's attempted prison escape plan, according to multiple reports.
According to the report the plan also required the use of bedsheets, dental floss, a hacksaw blade, and a safe house in Monticello. Perhaps the most important and crucial aspect of the escape plan was that Londonio's intense diet and exercise regimen, a critical ingredient in making sure that the mobster would be able to squeeze through a window after the saw was used to cut an opening.
"A central element of Londonio’s plan involved losing enough weight to insure he fit through the opened window," according to FBI agents Theodore Otto and Christopher Munger. "Toward that end, Londonio began eating lots of bran, and had been exercising feverishly—running up and down the stairs separating the tiers in his unit and doing chin-ups—as of the last time Evangelista saw him."
Londonio had it all planned out, how he would escape, how he would be able to live in the safe house, according to the New York Post. The report read that a close friend of Londonio, who Londonio described as "a big bookmaker from the Arthur Avenue section of the Bronx was going to provide $150,000 to sustain them, while on the lam," according to the New York Post.
According to the news release, Joon H. Kim, the acting U.S. Attorney was stated saying, "Already detained on racketeering and murder charges, Lucchese soldier Christopher Londonio, allegedly hatched a scheme to break out of federal prison with a hacksaw blade and a rope made from tied-up bedsheets."
A fellow prisoner, David Evangelista, foiled the plan by telling the prison's Psychological Service Unit about it on Aug. 1, 2017, according to the New York Post. He was afraid that he would be arrested for being a co-conspirator in the escape plan.