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September 5, 2008
One of 2 prison escapees recaptured on Shore Authorities yesterday captured one of two inmates who walked away from an Eastern Shore correctional facility Wednesday evening. The second escapee was still at large yesterday evening. James Allen Cramer, 52, was arrested about 3 p.m. by the Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office at an undisclosed location. Authorities said an anonymous tipster aided police in Cramer's apprehension. Police were still searching for Billy Gene Dolly, 41. He was described as a white male, 5-foot-6 and 160 pounds.
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By Nick Madigan | March 21, 2008
The zebras made a run for it. Spotting a door ajar, three striped members of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus broke out yesterday from their temporary home in Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena. But they didn't get far. Evidently bewildered by the bustle on Hopkins Place downtown, Mali, Giza and Lima -- geldings born in Missouri seven or eight years ago -- allowed themselves to be corralled by trainer Karin Houcke and two handlers within half a block of their exit point. No need for a lasso, since each animal wore a bridle.
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By Paul Watson | July 13, 2005
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Four Arab escapees believed to be members of al-Qaida eluded a U.S. military dragnet for a second day yesterday as Islamic extremists celebrated the breakout from a detention center here as proof of American weakness. U.S. and allied Afghan troops backed by Apache helicopter gunships set up checkpoints and searched villages that surround the Bagram airbase, about 25 miles north of the Afghan capital, Kabul. The base houses the detention center where several hundred suspected militants are held and serves as the headquarters for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
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By KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE | October 2, 2002
WASHINGTON - Future escapees from high-rise disasters might find themselves hurtling to safety down giant, inflated chutes if a well-connected Israeli company makes good on its invention. The Advanced Modular Evacuation System, which looks like a giant elephant trunk hanging down from a building, is intended to rescue people who are stuck above the reach of a hook-and-ladder. According to its manufacturer, upgrades of the device someday could rescue people from 100 floors above the street.
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By Stephen Kiehl | July 1, 2002
Nine teen-age boys who removed a window and cut through two fences to escape from the Charles H. Hickey School on Saturday were back in custody by the end of the night, authorities said yesterday. Two of the boys were caught shortly after the 8:30 p.m. escape from the school for juvenile offenders in Cub Hill. State troopers and Baltimore County police, using helicopters and police dogs, caught the other seven escapees about 11:40 p.m. in a residential area near Joppa Road and Walther Boulevard, about two miles from the school.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | March 8, 2002
Two teen-age sex offenders were back in custody yesterday after escaping from the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in Baltimore County, officials said. The offenders, 17 and 19 years old, escaped about 7 p.m. Wednesday, said Lee Towers, spokesman for Maryland's Department of Juvenile Justice. He said the teens were dressed in street clothes. A guard, apparently believing they were employees, opened the gate and let them pass. The two were being held at a 26-bed facility for sex offenders run by the Chesapeake Center that is housed on the Hickey grounds.
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By FROM STAFF REPORTS | December 7, 2001
In Baltimore County 3 boot camp escapees may have stolen car in Timonium TIMONIUM - Three escapees from a state prison boot camp are thought to have stolen a car yesterday in Baltimore County, county and state police said. A white 1995 Plymouth Neon was reported stolen about 9:45 a.m. by a woman who found in its place a brown 1984 Chevrolet Caprice, which police think the escapees carjacked Wednesday in Baltimore. The Caprice was found on Ridgely Road in Timonium, police said. Police are searching for Phillip Schimminger, 24, and Gerard Shaffer, 29, both of Baltimore, and Matthew Gibalia, 19, of Johnstown, Pa. The men escaped Tuesday from Herman L. Toulson Boot Camp in Jessup.
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By KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE | January 31, 2001
IRVING, Texas - Up in Colorado, they're calling it the "Texas Lottery" - the half-million-dollar reward for the captured escapees. At least four tipsters appear to be eligible, but they may have to wait a while. Most of the organizations that are offering the reward money say they will wait for the Irving Police Department to determine who will receive it. An Irving police officer was slain on Christmas Eve, and one of the escapees is suspected. "That's something we won't be able to get to until further in the case," police spokesman David Tull said.
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By LOS ANGELES TIMES | December 30, 2000
HOUSTON - A shrewd, well-organized master criminal appears to be the leader of seven escaped Texas prisoners suspected of killing a policeman, authorities said Thursday - and they fear the escapees might be planning a violent showdown with police. A Christmas Eve robbery in Irving, in which Officer Aubrey Hawkins was slain, bore marked similarities to the El Paso robberies that landed escapee George Rivas in jail in 1994. Rivas, 34, whom El Paso prosecutor Marcos Lizarraga once called "the most dangerous man in Texas," had led a group of thugs posing as security guards in at least a half-dozen robberies.
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By Devon Spurgeon | June 25, 1999
The girlfriend of a convicted killer has been charged with helping her lover and his cellmate escape last month from the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup, state police said yesterday.Geneva Viola Shadeed, 36, of Baltimore surrendered late Wednesday and was charged with two counts of harboring a prison escapee and two counts of being an accessory after the fact. She was released on her own recognizance.Shadeed, girlfriend of Gregory Lee Lawrence, is the second woman arrested in the double escape.