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Inmate behind Lino Lakes prison van escape charged with hijacking others aboard
By startribune.com- Andy Mannix
Published: 08/02/2017

James Douglas Mitchell saw a way out of prison in the front of the transport van.

It was hot morning for May in Minnesota, with temperatures rising toward the low 80s. Mitchell and eight other inmates were on their way from Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud to other prisons across the state. The driver, Sgt. Joseph Strunk, stopped at Lino Lakes prison, where some would be dropped off, and the inmates watched Strunk exit the van and disappear into a dark garage.

Anthony Alexander, an inmate in the van, said that Mitchell fixated on an opportunity to escape.

“Man, I can’t believe this,” he recalled Mitchell saying, motioning to the ignition. “Man left his keys in there!”

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