3rd escaped Tennessee inmate arrested in Wilmington

Wilmington police said on Thursday at around 9 p.m. the U.S. Marshals Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, with the assistance of the Wilmington Police Department Task Force, captured 50-year-old Johnny “Shane” Brown without incident inside of an apartment in northwest Wilmington.

Sullivan County Police Department said in a release the Tennessee license plate on the vehicle they had been searching for had been replaced with a West Virginia license plate.

Brown will be held at the New Hanover County Detention Center pending extradition.

Tobias Carr, 38, Timothy Sarver, 45, and Johnny Brown, 50, were involved in a robbery at a convenience store in Sneads Ferry near Camp Lejeune, the sheriff's office posted on their Twitter page.

Sheriff: Two men who escaped from prison in Tennessee died in Wilmington after a chase

After robbing the store in Sneads Ferry, the trio led authorities on a chase across several counties before crashing their vehicle in Brunswick County.

Carr and Sarver died sometime after the police chase, officials said. It's unclear when the two men died or how they died.

The State Bureau of Investigations has been brought in to investigate the two men's death, according to the Onslow County Sheriff's Office.