UPDATE: Orange Correctional Offender Recaptured

Raleigh

Jun 20, 2023

An offender who escaped Monday from Orange Correctional Center was recaptured this morning.

A Prisons Emergency Response Team (PERT) took offender William Cooper (#0940349) into custody about 7:25 a.m. near Orange Grove Road in Hillsborough. Cooper, 36, will be charged with escape and moved to a higher-custody facility.

A female suspect has been arrested and charged in Orange County with aiding and abetting the escape. Investigations by the N.C. Department of Adult Correction and by outside law enforcement agencies continue.

Adult Correction thanks the Orange and Alamance county sheriff's offices and other law enforcement agencies for their valuable assistance.

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RALEIGH — State correctional and local law enforcement officers are seeking Orange Correctional Center offender William Cooper (# 0940349), who escaped from the minimum custody prison this morning.

Cooper was confirmed missing during a morning count of offenders around 6 a.m.

Cooper is a thin white male, age 36, who stands six foot tall, weighing around 200 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes. He is heavily tattooed, with a variety of symbols on his hands, arms, legs, shoulder, stomach, back, chest and neck.

He was serving a three-year sentence for a January larceny conviction in Alamance County and a probation revocation. He was scheduled to be released Dec. 17, 2024. An escape warrant is being prepared for this minimum custody offender.

If you see Cooper, please call 911 or the Orange Correctional Institution at 919-732-9301.