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Escaped inmate returned to custody
A state prison inmate who walked away from work duty at a Department of Transportation facility in Shelby on Friday was captured Wednesday.
Posted — UpdatedFALLSTON, N.C. — A state prison inmate who walked away from work duty at a Department of Transportation facility in Shelby on Friday was captured Wednesday afternoon, a spokesman with the Department of Correction said.
A telephone tip led officers to Jason Norris in Fallston.
Norris, who is serving time at the Rutherford Correctional Center in Spindale for a drug possession conviction, will be charged with escape, officials said.
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