Fugitive known as "The Fly" caught months after deadly prison escape
Two guards were killed when armed assailants helped Mohamed Amra escape from a prison convoy last May, prompting a high-profile search.
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Two guards were killed when armed assailants helped Mohamed Amra escape from a prison convoy last May, prompting a high-profile search.
Daniel Khalife's spying case had not received much attention until he broke out of prison on the underbelly of a food delivery truck.
An inmate escaped custody over the weekend in North Carolina, apparently fleeing a county jail through the building's ventilation system, authorities said.
All but two of the 15 suspects in the jail at the time escaped when the cells were opened on the morning, police said.
Authorities in Mississippi say a "desperate" and "very dangerous" convicted murderer, Drew Johnson, is back in custody after escaping from prison Tuesday.
Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say at least 129 people were killed, mostly in a stampede, during an attempted prison escape in Kinshasa.
The joint sting by Interpol and the FBI uncovered an international criminal organization suspected of cybercrime, officials said.
Assailants killed 2 prison convoy officers, springing the inmate they were escorting. France's prime minister vowed the suspects "will pay."
French officials say "all means are being used to find" an escaped convict and the heavily armed assailants who attacked the vehicle that had been carrying him to prison.
Matthew Ornellas Jr. scaled a fence with razor wire, and officers gave chase but lost sight of him when he entered a dense brush area, officials said.
An Idaho inmate who escaped custody this week is suspected, along with his accomplice, in the murders of two men while they were on the run. Investigators say the inmate deliberately injured himself in prison to get taken to a hospital Wednesday, and when he was about to be transported back, his accomplice opened fire on corrections officers. Carter Evans has the latest.
Idaho police on Thursday captured a violent escaped convict and his alleged accomplice who were on the run. Officers are investigating two homicides that could be potentially linked to the pair. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans has more.
A man suspected of opening fire on corrections officers while helping an inmate escape from a Boise hospital is in custody, authorities announced Thursday, along with the escaped inmate. Two homicides committed in the last day in the state are also under investigation as possibly being connected to the two suspects. Carter Evans has the latest.
Idaho officials announced the capture of an escaped inmate and his accomplice in Boise on Thursday. Three corrections officers were shot early Wednesday after the inmate and accomplice escaped from a hospital.
Authorities are searching for a gunman who shot and wounded two corrections officers while they were transporting an inmate Tuesday night from a hospital in Boise, Idaho. A third officer was accidentally shot by responding Boise police. The gunman and the inmate are believed to have escaped together, officials said. The wounded officers are expected to survive. Elise Preston reports.
U.S. Marshals captured Shane Pryor, the 17-year-old escaped prisoner, Sunday night in Philadelphia with the help of a Target employee.
The 17-year-old inmate, Shane Pryor, escaped from CHOP's ER parking lot on Wednesday, according to police.
Authorities are searching for two inmates who escaped from a detention center in Arkansas, one of whom was being held on suspicion of murder.
Michael Burham escaped from Warren County jail in northwestern Pennsylvania last year and was on the run for more than a week before a pet dog led to his recapture.
Robert Yancy Jr., 39, was captured after two civilians recognized him and called police, officials said.
Two teenagers charged with first-degree murder escaped a juvenile jail in Louisiana on Saturday. One had already fled the jail earlier this month.
Joey Fournier, 52, was apprehended near Stockbridge, Georgia, just before noon Saturday, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said in a statement.
Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, 37, was charged with one count of escape from custody, and Janecia Green, 30, was charged with one count of assisting escape of a person committed to custody, after a federal grand jury indictment.
Johnifer Dernard Barnwell was captured in a home in Augusta — but murder suspect Joey Fournier remains on the loose, officials said.
Ameen Hurst, now 19, and Nasir Grant, 24, escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center in northeast Philadelphia on May 7.