Montana authorities report that the man recently arrested for a 2011 Lapeer County murder has escaped their custody as he was being extradited back to Michigan.
Around 10:00 a.m. Sunday, July 9, a contracted private transport arranged by the U.S. Marshals were heading through Sanders County, Montana, with recently extradited 42-year-old Utah man Chadwick Shane Mobley when he escaped during a gas station stop. According to police, the Lincoln County based transport had stopped at Plains Town Pump when Mobley was able to remove his handcuffs and ankle shackles and fled.
According to Lapeer County District Court records, Mobley is charged with one count of first degree felony murder, one count of first degree premeditated murder, and one felony gun charge. Michigan State Police revealed to MLive last month that Mobley’s DNA was matched to him via familial genealogy from the DNA found on cigarette evidence from the scene of the November 2011 death of 20-year-old Andrea Eilber.
20-year-old Eilber was found dead in the basement of her aunt and uncle’s Mayfield Township home on November 16, 2011, having been shot dead by a single gunshot to the head two days prior. Her boyfriend at the time, 19-year-old Kenneth Grondin III, was charged and convicted of the crime. The 2015 conviction was later overturned in 2018.
The now 30-year-old Grondin was still waiting to be retried on the charges, with it not being clear what will happen if Mobley is tried for the crime instead.
As of 10:00 a.m. Monday, July 10, he is still at large and believed to still be in Montana, with the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office urging citizens to keep their homes, vehicles and valuables locked up, as well as a plea to those in the Plains, Montana area to check personal surveillance footage that could aid in his capture.
