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UPDATE: Escapee from Texarkana jail caught


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Updated: 7/14/2012 6:10 pm Published: 7/14/2012 5:37 pm
Update: The sheriff's office says the suspect has been caught.


TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) - Authorities in northeastern Texas and southwestern Arkansas are searching for an escapee from the Bowie County Correctional Center in Texarkana, Texas.

Bowie County Sheriff James Prince told the Texarkana Gazette that Marques Tervon Franklin disappeared from the jail between 5:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Saturday.

Prince says Franklin is black, about 5-feet-9-inches tall and 120 pounds and was last known to be wearing a dark blue jail uniform.

Franklin was being held on charges of robbery, unauthorized use of a vehicle and evading arrest.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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golfdude2 - 7/17/2012 5:55 AM
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And all they had to do was stake out the KFC and bodda beam, bodda boom - got him.

ArkansasYankee - 7/15/2012 6:12 PM
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theITguy; I have an IT degree also, so we have something in common. As a child, Dad was stationed in a couple of places in TX, my only sibling, a younger brother, was born in Ft. Worth, and I lived in El Paso in the early '80's, and San Antonio in the late '80's. In between, 2 years in Atlanta, and here in Jax. However, you are in AR now; you should show a little more kindness to your neighbors instead of putting AR down. After all, I've lived in both states, and TX isn't any better than AR in anything, with the exception of having a couple of pro baseball teams, and a couple of pro football teams. Not dissing you Texas, just sayin'.,

theITguy - 7/14/2012 8:53 PM
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That's how you do it in Texas...the guy's caught a few hours later. Here in AR? "Inmate still on the loose - Day 3" What happened to that guy that walked away from a work detail in Saline County a couple of months back?
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