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| Davidson County prison escapee captured in Virginia |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/05/2004 |
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An inmate who escaped the Davidson Correctional Center has been captured by sheriff's deputies in Wythe County, Va. Eldridge Hodge was captured without incident at the home of his son Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Hodge escaped Sunday night from Davidson Correctional Center in Lexington, N.C. Hodge, 45, was serving a 99-year sentence for first-degree rape. He was convicted in Forsyth County in 1982. Hodge is being held in a regional jail in Dublin, Va., until he is extradited to North Carolina. The Davidson County sheriff's department and fugitive officers from the Division of Prisons assisted in the investigation that led to Hodge's capture, reports said. Inmate Bobby Bates, 24, has been charged with helping Hodge plan his escape from prison and three women have been charged with aiding him on the outside. Brandy Nicole Blackwell, 21, and Tanzy Lanier Sunshine, 23, both of Denton, and Kay Christine Casad, 23, of Lexington, were arrested this week by sheriff's deputies in Davidson and Randolph counties. |
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