An Oregon man who escaped from prison in 1994 was arrested in Georgia on Tuesday. In November 1994, Steven Craig Johnson was serving time for sexual abuse and attempted sodomy at Mill Creek Correctional Facility when he allegedly fled from a work crew. The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) said Johnson, 70, who was living at …
Idaho police have issued a blue alert after an inmate reportedly escaped from custody early Wednesday during a hospital shooting that left three corrections officers wounded. East Idaho News reported that officers had taken inmate Skylar Meade, 31, to Saint Alphonsus in Boise for medical treatment. As officers prepared to take him back to the …
A convicted sex offender escaped his Tennessee county jail on Friday but was back in jail a day later. Putnam County Sheriff Eddie Farris told WZTV that a door was left unlocked, allowing Jack Janes, 42, to walk out of the jail unhindered. “Anytime an inmate escapes, we obviously have made a mistake in order …
A 17-year-old escaped murder suspect — who has been in jail since he was 14 awaiting trial — is back in custody. US Marshals toodk Shane Pryor into custody at 3rd and the Boulevard in Philadelphia on Sunday, WCAU reported. Pryor escaped from custody on Wednesday when he was taken to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia …
Police in Philadelphia are looking for an escaped 17-year-old murder suspect, who had been in jail awaiting trial since he was 14. Shane Pryor had also been charged with conspiracy and firearms offenses, according to WPVI. Pryor escaped from an emergency room parking lot at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he had gone for treatment …
A convicted child rapist is back in a Texas prison after his mother helped him escape earlier this week. Robert Yancy Jr’s mother and her boyfriend are also behind bars, charged with helping the felon flee a prison farm in Brazoria on Sunday. Yancy, 39, was captured in Matagorda County early Monday morning and brought …
Texas authorities are looking for a convicted child rapist who escaped from a state prison on Sunday. Robert Yancy Jr. was serving a life sentence without parole after he was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child in May 2022. The jury in that case deliberated for less than two hours, according to the …
The Texas woman charged with murdering her boyfriend’s love interest now stands accused of plotting an escape attempt earlier this week by faking a leg injury, CBS Austin reports. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 35-year-old Kaitlin Armstrong broke away from two correctional officers at an Austin medical facility on Wednesday. Authorities say the alleged killer managed …
The Drug Enforcement Agency has released the thermal video it used to track escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante in the hours before the Brazilian native was caught. Cavalcante escaped the Chester County Prison on August 31 and stayed ahead of hundreds of law enforcement agents for two weeks, first in a relatively small area not far …
Police in Washington, D.C. continue to search for a murder suspect who was arrested last week but escaped from custody. Christopher Haynes, 30, was arrested last Wednesday in Virginia for an August 12 shooting in D.C. that killed Brent Hayward, 33, and left another person injured. WRC reported that Haynes was undergoing questioning when he …
A convicted murderer who was captured on Wednesday — two weeks after escaping from a Pennsylvania prison — reportedly lived off watermelon and planned to flee to Canada or Puerto Rico. Danelo Cavalcante allegedly hid in thick brush and shaved using a razor he found in a backpack. Supervisory deputy U.S. Marshal Robert Clark told …
A Belgian malinois named Yoda captured Danelo Cavalcante, grabbing the fugitive murderer as he tried to crawl away from tactical teams who swarmed him by surprise Wednesday morning. An aircrew spotted a heat signature early Wednesday morning with a thermal camera, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col George Bivens told reporters after the 34-year-old convicted murderer …
