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| Convict from Florida escapes, captured in Georgia |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/23/2004 |
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A man imprisoned for killing his girlfriend in Sarasota County (Fla.) escaped from a work camp and was on the run about two hours before being captured in south Georgia, officials said. James D. Tinnell, 52, got out through a basketball-sized hole in a fence at the River Junction Work Camp last Sunday, said Debbie Buchannan, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections. He was tracked down by DOC dogs and captured while running through the woods off a dirt road just over the border in Georgia, about two miles from River Junction, Buchannan told the Jackson County Floridan. Tinnell was serving convicted of manslaughter in the August 2001 death of his girlfriend. He was sentenced in April 2002 to 15 years. Buchannan said Tinnell was never assigned to a work detail at River Junction and likely would never be returned to that prison camp or any other medium-security facility. |
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