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| A Week After Escape, Texas Inmate Nabbed |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/17/2003 |
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An escaped jail inmate was captured March 9 in downtown Newton, almost exactly a week after he broke out of the Newton County Correctional Center by cutting a hole in a fence, a Beaumont television station reported. Two Newton County sheriff's deputies and a Newton police officer spotted James R. Duncan, 38, walking down Main Street about 12:30 a.m. They arrested him, and he did not resist, KFDM-TV reported. Duncan was convicted in mid-July 1999 of attempted armed robbery and was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison, according to Arizona Department of Corrections records. He had been housed at the Newton County Correctional Center since last year. Duncan served as a trusty at the prison. The area from which he escaped was reserved for prison employees and had limited security. Since his escape, dozens of law enforcement officers and volunteers had been looking for Duncan, focusing their search on a wooded area about four or five miles north of the correctional center. Bloodhounds were brought in to help with the search, and officers from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Jefferson County sheriff's office used all-terrain vehicles and a helicopter. Duncan is the fifth inmate to escape from the Newton County Correctional Center since 1998. Each has been caught. |
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