Ramone Alston will be charged with felony escape from prison after fleeing from van on way to hospital
A prisoner serving a life sentence for murder was captured at a North Carolina hotel early on Friday, three days after his escape on the way to a medical appointment, and authorities say he had help from at least one person.
Ramone Alston, 30, escaped from a van on Tuesday as it arrived at the UNC Gastroenterology hospital in Hillsborough, where he was being taken for a medical appointment. He freed himself from his leg restraints and fled into the woods with handcuffs on, according to the North Carolina department of adult correction.
Alston was taken into custody at about 2am at a hotel in Kannapolis, near Charlotte, about 110 miles (177km) south-west of Hillsborough, the department said in a news release, and no one was injured during the arrest. Alston will be charged with felony escape from prison, according to the release.
Alston was taken to the Granville correctional institution’s high-security maximum control unit, the state prison system’s most secure, to resume serving his life sentence, the department secretary, Todd Ishee, said at a news conference on Friday afternoon.
