Police: Man who escaped from detention facility is captured
BOSTON — A man who climbed through razor wire to escape from a detention centre in Rhode Island, stole a car and may have tried to rob two banks was captured in Massachusetts on Thursday by a state police trooper who chased him and grabbed him as he tried to leap over a fence, authorities said.
Massachusetts state police and the U.S. marshal in Rhode Island said James Morales was captured in Somerville, about an hour’s drive north of the privately run Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, where he escaped five days earlier.
Earlier Thursday, authorities said they were investigating whether Morales was the man who tried to rob a bank in Cambridge, Morales’ hometown.
State police said troopers were in the area after a second attempted bank robbery in neighbouring Somerville when Trooper Joseph Merrick spotted Morales walking. They said Morales ran and the trooper chased him on foot for about a quarter-mile.