Escapee from Rocky Mount women's prison captured
Law enforcement authorities in Onslow County have captured an inmate who escaped Monday morning from Fountain Correctional Center for Women in Rocky Mount.
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Keith Acree, a spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, said Misty Dawn Gardner was taken into custody shortly before 4 p.m.
Further details about her capture weren't immediately available.
Prison officials believe Gardner might have scaled a fence at Fountain Correctional Center for Women sometime after 6:30 a.m., which was the last time she had been accounted for.
Gardner, 30, is from Onslow County and was serving approximately two years for a 2011 conviction for driving while impaired.
She was scheduled to be released in December.
According to the Department of Public Safety, Fountain Correctional Center is a minimum-security prison that houses 510 inmates.
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