FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Ernest Wallace, a friend and co-defendant of Aaron Herrnandez, the former New England Patriot star who has been charged with murder, will be arraigned on Thursday in Superior Court on a felony count of accessory after the fact of murder.
Wallace, 41, of Mirarmar, Florida and formerly of Bristol, Conn. was with Hernandez, 23 and Carlos A. Ortiz, 27, also of Bristol, Conn., when they picked up Odin L. Lloyd in Boston on June 17 and were there when Lloyd was fatally shot five times in an industrial pit near the Hernandez mansion in North Attleboro.
A grand jury in Bristol County, Mass. indicted Hernandez, Wallace and Tanya Cummings-Singleton, 37, of Bristol, Conn. last month. She is a cousin of Hernandez and has been charged with contempt of court for failing to appear before a Suffolk County grand jury investigating a double-murder in Boston in July 2012.
The authorities have said that Hernandez is a suspect in those fatal shootings, too.
Wallace disappeared in the days following the Lloyd murder in Massachusetts. His rental car was recovered in Bristol, Conn. and a massive manhunt for him ensued. In early July, he walked into the Mirarmar, Fla. police station and surrendered.
Wallace, Hernandez, Ortiz and Cummings-Singleton have all been held without bail in various county jails in Massachusetts. The arraignment of Wallace is scheduled for 2 p.m