Dippolito was heard in a jailhouse phone call discussing the recent jailbreak of Jimmy Causey, a South Carolina prisoner who
escaped earlier this month using a drone and wire cutters, attorney Brian Claypool confirms to PEOPLE.
“He had somebody fly a drone over and drop off wire cutters and he cut wires and escaped from prison,” Dippolito is allegedly heard saying in audio obtained by
ABC News. “Everyone here was like pumped up when they read that.”
The man she allegedly spoke with warned her that she’d “never” be able to pull off such an escape at the Palm Beach County prison. She replied: “God, settle down.”
Claypool confirmed that law enforcement officers are looking into the phone call, noting that the audio is being used by prosecutors who oppose Dippolito’s request to be released from prison pending her appeal.
However, Claypool tells PEOPLE that the conversation is no indication that Dippolito is looking to break out of prison.
“The portion of the jailhouse call … is completely taken out of context. The total phone call was 10 minutes. Of that 10 minutes, about 45 seconds to a minute of the phone call dealt with Dalia mentioning a news article she read,” he says.
“At no time did she ever make any specific reference to her male friend about him helping her get a drone or him helping her get a pair of wire cutters to help her escape from prison.”
Claypool says that since news of the phone call broke, Dippolito has been handcuffed everywhere she goes and has been restricted from making phone calls.
Dippolito was convicted in June of solicitation of first-degree murder. Prosecutors said she was captured on video and audio plotting to have her husband Michael Dippolito killed. During her trial, jurors heard her telling an undercover detective she was “5,000 percent sure” she wanted her husband dead.
Dippolito has maintained that she never intended to go through with the murder-for-hire plot. And her attorneys held that officers with the Boynton Beach Police Department failed to properly investigate the situation so they could capture video footage for the TV show
Cops.
No money ever changed hands between Dippolito and the undercover detective, and Michael was unharmed. Dippolito is hopeful that her conviction will be overturned on appeal, Claypool told PEOPLE last month.
