Edward Porta

Background Porta was married and divorced four times, and has two children. He has five siblings who he claims he did not have contact with for 40 years, according to police.

Porta was assigned federal inmate register number 18862-058. Authorities believe Porta had walked away from the minimum security camp at the penitentiary when he turned up missing during a 4 p.m. count on February 25, 2008. He had been placed in the low security area and was given a significant amount of freedom because he had been convicted of a business-related white-collar crime.

Porta served the remainder of his sentence at a corrections facility in Russell County, Virginia. He was released on October 1, 2019.