Released inmate captured
The inmate serving three life sentences for attempted murder, mistakingly released from a state prison in Baltimore on Thursday, has been captured in West Virgina.
Details are still coming in but but city police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that members of the Warrant Apprehension Task Force, which includes city officers and state police troopers, tracked the suspect to a home of a childhood friend in Martinsburg.
Guglielmi said the suspect surrendered peacefully. More details are expected to be released at a news conference at 12:30 p.m.
Raymond Thomas Taylor, who was serving three consecutive life sentences for shooting his ex-girlfriend and her two daughters in 2004, was taken into custody Friday in Martinsburg, W.Va., said Rick Binetti, a spokesman for Maryland's prison system. West Virginia State Police were holding the escaped inmate.
Taylor, who was sentenced in 2005 to three life terms on three charges of attempted first-degree murder, escaped from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center about 2 p.m. Thursday when he posed as another inmate who was supposed to be released at that time, officials said. Binetti said Friday that Taylor's cellmate was to be charged with conspiracy to commit escape.
Taylor's last address before going to prison was in New York City. Baltimore police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III called him a "dangerous criminal" at a hastily arranged news conference Thursday night at the adjustment center.
Comments
This escape was not as crafty as the one from baltimore supermax a few years back.A white guy grew skinny,and climbed out an exhaust vent,made it to OHIO,and got a job working at a filling station,before he was caught.
Posted by: kevin | February 27, 2010 2:03 PM
I strongly believe it is the duty of the releasing officer to identify an inmate before he or she is released. It is not the duty of releasing inmate cell mate to do the officer's job.
Posted by: rasong | February 28, 2010 10:46 PM