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| Escaped maximum security prison inmate back in custody |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/09/2005 |
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BARAGA, Mich.-- An inmate who escaped from a maximum security prison in the Upper Peninsula was arrested about 160 miles away in Wisconsin with a female prison worker who police said had aided in his escape. Garfield Lawson III, 35, escaped Saturday from the Baraga Maximum Correctional Facility, where he had been serving a life sentence since 1999. Lawson was accompanied by Kathy Lynn Sleep, a 42-year-old in the food services department at the prison. Lawson and Sleep were arrested without incident about 11:15 p.m. CDT Sunday at a motel in the village of Rothschild, Wis., said Sgt. Jeremy Hunt of the Marathon County, Wis., Sheriff's Department. Marathon County deputies and Rothschild police located the pair after receiving a tip, Hunt said. He did not elaborate. Lawson and Sleep were being held in the Marathon County Jail pending extradition to Michigan. Leo Lalonde, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections, declined to comment Monday on what action might be taken against Sleep, since the escape remained under investigation. Sleep began working at the prison in August 2002, delivering food, Lalonde said. Her job required her to take food and trays back and forth between the main kitchen in the maximum security part of the prison to the other areas. A person who answered the telephone at Baraga Maximum Correctional Facility said the prison had no comment on the escape. Lawson fled the prison in Baraga about noon EDT Saturday. A Department of Corrections food service truck used in the escape was recovered in L'Anse, a village located just east of the prison. A Saginaw County judge sentenced Lawson in October 1999 to life imprisonment on three counts of assault with intent to murder, assaulting a jail employee and carrying a weapon with unlawful intent, according to the Corrections Department's Web site. The offenses stemmed from an April 3, 1999, incident in which Lawson and another Saginaw County Jail inmate brandished 5-inch metal shanks at four guards before the officers prevailed in a three-minute scuffle. Lawson escaped from the Saginaw County Jail on Aug. 31, 1997, after overpowering a sheriff's deputy who was accompanying him to medical treatment. At the time, Lawson was being held for a probation violation on domestic assault charges. Lawson was captured and sentenced in June 1999 to life in prison on charges of taking the deputy's gun. A federal judge in August 1999 sentenced Lawson to an additional 12 1/2 years in prison on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and violating conditions of his supervised release. |
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