Pasquotank Correctional Institution Minimum Custody Facility inmate Devonta Respers (#1229310), who was reported missing from the minimum custody facility this morning at 10 a.m., was captured by prison staff at 11:52 a.m.
Prison security staff, using dogs, captured Respers off U.S. Highway 17 in Elizabeth City near the facility. He was found in a ditch next to the highway.
Respers, 25, was serving a sentence for assault with a deadly weapon on a government officers/employees and was admitted to prison on Jan. 25, 2017. He was scheduled for release in April 2020.
Respers is back in custody and will face charges for his escape.
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