Escaped Linstead prisoner recaptured
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Linstead police on Wednesday recaptured a male prisoner who had escaped custody at the Linstead police lock-up a month ago.
Steven Burke, 20, one of three prisoners who escaped the lock-up on July 12, 2015 while officers were “attending to prisoners’ welfare”, was apprehended on Wednesday in St Catherine.
Reports are that about 3:00 pm, a team of officers was on a fugitive apprehension operation in the parish when Burke was accosted in Bonnet district, Guys Hill.
He has been charged with escaping custody and was initially incarcerated on the charge of robbery with aggravation. He is scheduled to appear before the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, September 3.
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