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Date: Feb. 3, 2009 Phone: 919 -716-3700

  

Escapee from Goldsboro prison captured in New Bern

 NEW BERN – Department of Correction emergency response team officers captured inmate Johnny Dickerson shortly after 1 p.m. today.  He was located in a wooded area off U.S. 17 south of New Bern.

 He surrendered to officers without incident.

 Dickerson, 29, escaped from Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro Saturday night.  He had been serving a six-month sentence for misdemeanor larceny, communicating threats and simple assault.

 

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 Editors:  A digital color photo of Dickerson is available using the offender search on the NCDOC website at  www.doc.state.nc.us


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