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| Escapee Plea Bargain Important to N.H. Prison Security Investigation |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/01/2003 |
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One of three escapees from a New Hampshire prison pleaded guilty Monday to escape and two other charges, a plea prosecutors said was important to their case against the other two and the attorney general's investigation of prison security. Chris McNeil, 35, of Willards, Md., provided substantial information on how the three managed the escape, the first from the secure area of the prison in many years, prosecutors Brian Quirk and Jim Rosenberg said. ''This guy is crucial to the state,'' Rosenberg said. ''That's why it was important to plead this guy out.'' He and Quirk said the attorney general's office would deliver a preliminary report to the governor this week on its investigation into prison security. On the recommendation of prosecutors, McNeil received reduced sentences of four to 10 years for escape and three to six years on each of two counts of receiving stolen property. He could have gotten 10 to 30 for escape and 71/2 to 15 on each of the other charges. The escape sentence will be tacked after McNeil serves 121/2 years of a federal sentence charge of interstate transportation of stolen property stemming from a 2000 arrest in Montana. The two state sentences for receiving stolen property will be served at the same time. But first, McNeil must complete two months in state prison for parole violation. It was during that time he cashed $3,400 in traveler's checks taken with cash from a Manchester travel agency, and committed the Montana crime. He also was ordered to pay restitution. McNeil, Kevin Gil, 31, and Philip Dick, 23, escaped June 4, and were captured at a Plymouth, Mass., campground the next day, 30 hours later. At the sentencing hearing, Quirk told Judge Kathleen McGuire in Merrimack County Superior Court the three planned the escape for two months, and that it was supposed to happen on June 3. But work by inmates in the industrial program was canceled for that day, and the escape was delayed one day. He said Gil and Dick planned to smuggle a wire-cutting tool into the prison, but McNeil convinced them to use a prison tool used for cutting nails. McNeil, meanwhile, had sent $1,700 and a list of things to do for the escape to Shayne Laslie, 26, of Concord, who had done time with McNeil, Quick said. McNeil called Laslie the morning of the escape to say it was on, Quick said. Then, while working in the industrial program, the three propped some plywood against portable toilets to hide them from view of any officers and cut through two fences to freedom, he said. Laslie was waiting with clothes and a car, and took them to the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester, where they ate lunch and Gil and Dick bought new clothes. Laslie then called someone he knew to provide transportation for the three to the Plymouth campground. But police tracked down Laslie that night at a Salem motel, and as they closed in, he shot himself to death. Quirk said the acquaintance in Plymouth heard about the death, and called Massachusetts authorities, who called the Rockingham County attorney's office, which alerted New Hampshire authorities. McNeil's public defender, Abigail Albee, declined to comment on the case except to say she felt McNeil got a fair sentence, and to offer their condolences to Laslie's family. |
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