Escaped prison inmate found driving mother’s stolen car in Durham, police say
An inmate who left his work-release assignment in Durham was found early Tuesday morning driving a car he stole from his mother, authorities said.
Robert Terrell, 42, a minimum-security inmate from the Orange Correctional Center in Hillsborough, left his work release assignment Monday evening. He was last seen at at 6 p.m. on East Club Boulevard in Durham, according to an N.C. Department of Public Safety press release.
Terrell was stopped at 2:20 a.m. Tuesday by Durham police and state troopers, according to the Department of Public Safety.
He was stopped at Cornwallis Road and South Roxboro Street “driving a car stolen from his mother,” the press release states.
Terrell, who was serving a nearly seven-year sentence as a habitual felon, was due for release in August 2020. He will now face escape and larceny of a vehicle charges.
Terrell was the ninth state inmate to leave a work-release site in 2019, WRAL reported. All were later caught.
Roughly 1,200 minimum-security inmates a day are on work-release, the station reported.
This story was originally published November 18, 2019 at 10:51 PM with the headline "Escaped prison inmate found driving mother’s stolen car in Durham, police say."