Calgary prisoner makes Hollywood-style escape
Friday, April 4, 2008
CBC News
Calgary [Alberta] police continued their search Friday for a prisoner who escaped from custody by jumping into the back of a moving truck.
Police said Robert Plant, 44, escaped Thursday afternoon while he was being transported as part of an ongoing investigation.
Plant was standing with officers outside a police car in the Mission area when a white truck sped by.
Plant jumped into the truck as it was still moving, Duty Insp. Dave Wood told CBC News, and the vehicle took off before police could jot down the licence plate number.
“Every escape is unusual, but this one, I don’t think it was by chance that that truck turned up at that specific location,” he said. “We’re investigating to try to discover the driver of the truck and also rearrest Mr. Plant.”
Plant was arrested on March 8 in connection with several break-ins.
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Prisoner escape a mystery: corrections official
Manhunt for Jermaine Carvery enters second day
Friday, April 4, 2008
CBC News
Nova Scotia’s head of corrections says he’s stumped as to how a prisoner managed to get out of locked leg restraints and run away.
Fred Honsberger, executive director of Nova Scotia Corrections Services, faced a second day of questions Friday as police continue to hunt for Jermaine Carvery.
Carvery, 30, jumped out of a transport van Thursday afternoon on his way from jail in Dartmouth to a medical appointment at the Centennial Building in Halifax.
Honsberger said Carvery was still wearing handcuffs when he bolted past a guard, but somehow got out of the restraints around his ankles.
The leg restraints use a “universal key,” he said, and were later found locked.
Honsberger called it a mystery and said an investigation is underway.
As for the timeline, he said the guard chasing Carvery called the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility from a cellphone around 1:30 p.m.
However, no one from the jail called Halifax Regional Police until 1:39 p.m.
Police said they immediately sent a dozen offices to the scene. Several blocks around the van were cordoned off as police with dogs scoured the area.
Police continued to search for Carvery throughout the night.
“We’ve checked with all of his known associates,” said Const. Jeff Carr. “We acted on information that we received in the very early morning hours that he may have been at a Creighton Street apartment. That turned up negative.”
Carr said police don’t know whether Carvery left the province, but they are in contact with police across the country.
Carvery faces a number of charges, including attempted murder and hostage-taking. He’s accused of being the ringleader of an armed robbery a Costco store in Halifax in 2004, in which 42 employees were bound and gagged.
This is the fourth time since December that a prisoner in the province has escaped or been accidentally released from custody.
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