Is it just me, or does this story sound dumb to anyone else?

The Natrona County Sheriff’s Department is searching for a convicted murderer and his son who escaped from a Casper work-release program over the weekend.

Hmmm … could it be just some quality father/son time?

Deputies are looking for Shannon Parazoo, serving a 20- to 30-year sentence for killing a Gillette man, and his son, Alonzo Howard Durgin, who’s also a convicted felon. Both men were reported missing Saturday.

Both were inmates at the Casper Re-entry Center. The center houses work-release, drug court and drug treatment programs.

Parazoo, 43, signed out of the center at 9:20 a.m. on Friday. He checked in with the center twice during the afternoon, and called again that night to say he was going to his job at a Casper welding company, said Natrona County Sheriff’s Sgt. Mark Sellers.

Someone from the center went to pick Parazoo up the following morning, but was told he didn’t come to work the previous night, Sellers said.

Parazoo had been at the center since August, said Pat Odell, adult community corrections coordinator for the Wyoming Department of Corrections. Prior to that, he had been incarcerated at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins.

In addition to his 1985 murder conviction, Parazoo was convicted of attempting to escape in 1986.

He’s tried to escape before, yet he is was still placed in a work-release type prison program? Oh the liberals and their cute rehabilitation programs.

Durgin had been at the center since May, the same month he was first eligible for parole. He had previously been at the Wyoming Honor Conservation Camp in Newcastle.

In 1997, he was convicted of aggravated assault and aggravated robbery in Fremont County, according to the Department of Corrections.

Here in Wyoming, we throw words like “honor” around all the time with prison rehabilitation programs. Heck, doesn’t that look more fun than any summer camp you attended as a kid?

 

Parazoo drives a white 2000 Dodge van with temporary plates, according to the sheriff’s department. Durgin has a maroon 1998 Oldsmobile Cutlass with Wyoming license plate 1-8CDZ.

The article doesn’t say the vehicles were stolen … cars in prison honor programs? Heck yes!