Grapevine Police Dept. PIO Sgt. Robert Eberling speaks to the press at a mobile police command center in a parking lot in Grapevine, Texas, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. A manhunt is under way for Alberto Morales, a prisoner convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault, who stabbed one of two police escorts and escaped in the Dallas area as he was being transferred from Florida to Nevada, police said. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News,Kye R. Lee)
Grapevine Police Dept. PIO Sgt. Robert Eberling speaks to the press at a mobile police command center in the parking lot in Grapevine, Texas, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. A manhunt is under way for Alberto Morales, a prisoner convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault, who stabbed one of two police escorts and escaped in the Dallas area as he was being transferred from Florida to Nevada, police said. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Kye R. Lee)
The mobile police command center is set up in a parking lot in Grapevine, Texas, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. A manhunt is under way for Alberto Morales, a prisoner convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault, who stabbed one of two police escorts and escaped in the Dallas area as he was being transferred from Florida to Nevada, police said. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News,Kye R. Lee)
This 2007 image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Alberto Morales. Morales, 42, stabbed one of two police escorts and escaped Monday in the Dallas area as he was being transferred from Florida to Nevada, police said Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/LVMPD)
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DALLAS (AP) — Police say a Florida detective who was stabbed during a prisoner escape near Dallas is in "delicate condition" but will recover.
Miami-Dade police said Wednesday that 54-year-old Det. Jaime (JAY'-mee) Pardinas will take months to recover from stab wounds to his neck and back.
Authorities say 42-year-old convicted sex offender Alberto Morales used his eyeglasses to stab Pardinas and escape while being transferred from Florida to Nevada. Police say Morales was so disruptive on a flight into Houston that they decided to transfer him by ground the rest of the way.
Morales escaped when the detectives stopped at a store on their way to pick up a third officer who was flying in to the Dallas area. Policy requires there to be three officers for a ground transfer.
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