The final of the ten New Orleans jail escapees has been returned to jail, following a tip and a law enforcement canine. Derrick Groves, 27, was apprehended in Georgia on Wednesday around 1 p.m., after almost five months of being on the run. Police found him at a home on Honeysuckle Lane in southwest Atlanta. …
A former small town police chief escaped on Sunday from an Arkansas prison where he was serving decades for rape and murder. Grant Hardin, 56, escaped from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock Sunday afternoon, the Stone County Sheriff’s Office said. Hardin had been at the prison since 2017, when he was given a …
A search is underway in Louisiana after 10 inmates allegedly escaped from a jail on Friday. WWL reported that nine inmates from the Orleans Parish Justice Center in New Orleans remain at large, as one inmate, Kendall Myles, 20, was discovered hiding under a car at a parking garage at Hotel Monteleone. The Orleans Parish …
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 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 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 burglar alarm just after midnight brought a fresh focus in the search from escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante that ultimately led to the 34-year-old fugitive’s capture eight hours later, despite a thunderstorm that grounded air support overnight. Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens told reporters that teams had been searching an area not far …
