Police: Escaped inmate spotted at New Jersey pharmacy
BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Police in New Jersey say security footage has captured images of an escaped inmate walking into a pharmacy, one day after vanishing from a state prison.
The Barnegat Police Department identifies the man in the images taken at a Barnegat CVS on Wednesday morning as 38-year-old Arthur Buckel. Corrections officials say the minimum security inmate was missing when guards at Bayside State Prison in the southern New Jersey town of Hammonton performed a count Tuesday morning.
Buckel, whose last known address was in Clifton, had been serving a sentence for aggravated assault. He was scheduled to be paroled later this month.
Buckel previously served 14 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter of a 10-month-old child. He was released in 2010.
Barnegat Township schools that were placed on lockdown Wednesday are set to resume classes Thursday morning.